Klein v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
667 F.2d 274 · 1981
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 11 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Daye v. Attorney General of New York (1982), United States v. Silverstein (1984)
37 federal appellate · 11 district · 24 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Bruton v. United States · Kotteakos v. United States · Wainwright v. Sykes · Pointer v. Texas
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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the witness’ prior statements have created a significant likelihood that the finder of fact will be left with and prone to rely on a distorted view of the truth, and (2) the witness had reason to know that his prior statements would be interpreted as a waiver of the fifth amendment’s privilege against self-incrimination.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, the petitioner must have fairly presented to an appropriate state court the same federal constitutional claim that he now urges upon the federal courts.... Second, having presented his federal constitutional claim to an appropriate state court, and having been denied relief, the petitioner must have utilized all available mechanisms to secure [state] appellate review of the denial of that claim.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bond v. Walker · Ehinger v. Miller“fairly presented to an appropriate state court the same federal constitutional claim that he now urges upon the federal courts.”
4 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.