Brewer v. Overberg’s Empirical Analysis
624 F.2d 51 · 1980
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Walker v. Engle (1983), United States v. Meyers (1981)
23 federal appellate · 3 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Sykes · Keeble v. United States · Taylor v. Kentucky · Southern Railway Co. v. Seaboard Allied Milling Corp.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the failure of a state court to instruct the jury on lesser included offenses raises a question cognizable on habeas corpus review,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Ohio courts have repeatedly held that it is prejudical and reversible error for the trial court to refuse an instruction on lesser included offenses if the evidence could reasonably support a verdict on such offenses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“noncompliance with a state procedural rule does not bar habeas corpus review of 'plain error'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McBee v. Grant
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.