Allison v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
603 F.2d 633 · 1979
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 1996
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 · Harrington v. California · Williams v. Florida · Wardius v. Oregon · Baldwin v. New York Williams
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he question is 'whether there is a reasonable possibility' that the error affected the jury's verdict. In answering this question, the court must assess the 'probable impact of the (error) on the minds of an average jury.'”
4 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.