621 F. Supp. 533 - Carter v. Rafferty’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2015
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he prosecution did not cause Bello to recant his recantation through coercion, deceit or threats of prosecution for perjury; nor did the State misrepresent to Bello the results of the polygraph test to get Bello to go back to the 'on the street' version.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carter v. Rafferty“had the relevant information, they would have had the means to convince the jury that Bello selected one of several versions, possibly all untrue, merely because he mistakenly believed it had been confirmed by a polygraph test.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carter v. Rafferty“Yet, even though a new trial may very well be a practical impossibility, this is a decision that in the interests of comity should be made by the state.”
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.