Harris v. Spears’s Empirical Analysis
606 F.2d 639 · 1979
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently March 2016
9 federal appellate ·
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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Davis v. Alaska · Fay v. Noia · Henry v. State of Mississippi
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“turns on whether a finding of cause safeguards against a 'miscarriage of justice' ... and whether it can be presumed that no strategic advantage can be gained from failure to comply with the procedural rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The constitutional error occurred, however, not when the questions were asked, but when the son was not called.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Booker v. Wainwright
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.