Elliott v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
599 F.2d 767 · 1979
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently March 2008
5 federal appellate · 4 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 Bruton v. United States · Harrington v. California · Schneble v. Florida · United States Independent Telephone Ass'n v. MCI Telecommunications Corp. · State v. Elliott
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the findings and recommendations of the magistrate to this effect should be and the same are hereby adopted as the findings of fact and conclusions of law of this Court _”), cert. denied, 444 U.S. 932 , 100 S.Ct. 278 , 62 L.Ed.2d 190 (1979); Wedding v. Wingo, 483 F.2d 1131 , 1132 (6th Cir.1973) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Whether [the] error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt is not simply an inquiry into the sufficiency of the remaining evidence. Instead, the question is whether there is a reasonable possibility that the evidence complained of might have contributed to the conviction.”
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.