Cook v. Bordenkircher’s Empirical Analysis
602 F.2d 117 · 1979
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Byrd v. Collins (2000), Walker v. Engle (1983)
56 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Berger v. United States · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Helfat v. Securities & Exchange Commission · United States v. Leon
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so egregious so as to render the entire trial fundamentally unfair.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“.. . the degree to which the remarks complained of have a tendency to mislead the jury and to prejudice the accused; whether they were isolated or extensive; whether they were deliberately or accidentally placed before the jury; and the strength of the competent proofs introduced to establish the guilt of the accused.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Byrd v. Collins · Angel v. Overberg“[O]ur scope of review over allegedly prejudicial arguments by state prosecutors is narrow.”
2 later decisions 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.