Pettijohn v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
599 F.2d 476 · 1979
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably State v. Koedatich (1988), 205 Ill. 2d 411 - People v. Tenney (2002)
21 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Davis v. Alaska · Chambers v. Mississippi · United States v. Nixon · Washington v. Texas
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the Supreme Court cases of Washington v. Texas[ ] and Chambers v. Mississippi . . . mean anything, it is that a judge cannot keep important yet possibly unreliable evidence from the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he right to present such a vital witness [as Maynard] is, at heart, the right to present a defense. No matter how credible this defense, our system of justice guarantees the right to present it and be judged by it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.