Corbett v. Bordenkircher’s Empirical Analysis
615 F.2d 722 · 1980
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably Daye v. Attorney General of New York (1982), Del Vecchio v. Illinois Department of Corrections (1994)
22 federal appellate · 8 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 Davis v. Alaska · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Royal Netherlands Steamship Co. v. Strachan Shipping Co. · Drew v. United States · California v. Arizona
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“confounded his defense because he desired to testify as to some counts and not as to others”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Studham · Lucero v. Kerby“the judge had, in the past as a county attorney and as a commonwealth attorney, prosecuted [the petitioner] for crimes in four instances ... one of which convictions was relied upon as a basis for charging [the petitioner] with being an habitual offender”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“hold that simply because a trial judge has prosecuted a defendant in the past in performing his duty as a public official, due process requires that the judge recuse himself.”
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.