Cunningham v. Perini’s Empirical Analysis
655 F.2d 98 · 1981
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2015
9 federal appellate · 5 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 Griffin v. California · Hill v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, Local 25 · Ethridge v. United States · United States v. Wright · United States v. Robinson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether the jury “necessarily construes” a prosecutor’s remark as a comment on a defendant’s failure to testify requires a probing analysis of the context of the comment, and the likely effect of the district court’s curative instruction, if any.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Butler v. Rose
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.