Knapp v. Cardwell’s Empirical Analysis
667 F.2d 1253 · 1982
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 9 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2019 · most notably State v. Gretzler (1983), State v. Ring (2003)
34 federal appellate · 9 district · 19 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Burks v. United States · Furman v. Georgia · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Lockett v. Ohio
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“State courts have the final authority to interpret, and, where they see fit, to reinterpret the states' legislation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Normally the construction of a state statute by the highest court of that state must be treated as if it had been incorporated into the words of the state.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it 'neither made criminal a theretofore innocent act, nor aggravated a crime previously committed, nor provided greater punishment, nor changed the proof necessary to convict.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coleman v. Risley
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.