McPherson v. Barksdale’s Empirical Analysis
640 F.2d 780 · 1981
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2001
8 federal appellate ·
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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Santobello v. New York · United States v. Krasn · Bercheny v. Johnson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a state prosecutor's breach of a plea bargain is a violation of the Federal Constitution cognizable under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2254, but federal courts lack the supervisory authority to specify the remedy for such a violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. J O'Dea
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.