Jenkins v. Bordenkircher’s Empirical Analysis
611 F.2d 162 · 1979
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Michael A. Mayola v. State of Alabama (1980), Gall v. Parker (2000)
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 9 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 · Irvin v. Dowd · Harrington v. California · Murphy v. Florida · Schneble v. Florida
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]bsent some showing of hostility or prejudgment we will not assume that a state court judge would not be able to give a defendant a fair trial solely because of his earlier contacts with the defendant in prosecuting totally unrelated charges.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It has been specifically held that a judge who as United States Attorney was “of counsel” when a defendant was tried and convicted of one charge is not disqualified from presiding at the prosecution of the same defendant for a totally unrelated offense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“has had previous contact with the defendant as a prosecutor in totally unrelated criminal charges”
3 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.