Louis v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
630 F.2d 1105 · 1980
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Proffitt v. Wainwright (1982), Cullen v. United States (1999)
45 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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. § 636
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · United States v. Raddatz · United States v. Oregon State Medical Society · Holiday v. Johnston · Wingo v. Wedding
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"7. Neither the statute nor its legislative history reveals any specific consideration of the situation where a district judge after reviewing the record in the process of making a de novo `determination' has doubts concerning the credibility findings of the magistrate. The issue is not before us, but we assume it is unlikely that a district judge would reject a magistrate's proposed findings on credibility when those findings are dispositive and substitute the judge's own appraisal; to do so without seeing and hearing the witness or witnesses whose credibility is in question could well give rise to serious questions which we do not reach."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n a situation involving the constitutional rights of a criminal defendant, we hold that the district judge should not enter an order inconsistent with the credibility choices made by the magistrate without personally hearing the live testimony of the witnesses whose testimony is determinative.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to adequately determine the credibility of a witness ..., the fact finder must observe the witness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jordan v. Hargett · Self v. Collins
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.