Tyler v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
643 F.2d 1095 · 1981
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably State Ex Rel. Graffagnino v. King (1983), Washington v. Watkins (1981)
32 federal appellate · 8 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 · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · Morissette v. United States
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An erroneous instruction will support a collateral attack on the constitutional validity of a state court's judgment only if the ailing instruction so infected the entire trial that the resulting conviction violates due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Plunkett v. Estelle
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.