Gibson v. Clanon’s Empirical Analysis
633 F.2d 851 · 1980
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably United States v. Bagnariol (1981), State v. Barnes (1997)
52 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Chapman v. State of California · Irvin v. Dowd · Brown v. Allen · Sheppard v. Maxwell · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a jury is exposed to facts that have not been introduced into evidence, a defendant has effectively lost the rights of confrontation, cross-examination, and the assistance of counsel with regard to the extraneous information.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the appellant is entitled to a new trial if there existed a reasonable possibility that the extrinsic material could have affected the verdict.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] new trial must be granted unless 'it can be concluded beyond a reasonable doubt that extrinsic evidence did not contribute to the verdict.'”
6 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.