Nelson v. Scully’s Empirical Analysis
672 F.2d 266 · 1982
Citation profile
39
cited by 39 later decisions
September 1995
most recently cited
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wainwright v. Sykes · Morissette v. United States · Sandstrom v. Montana
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he question is not whether the trial court failed to isolate and cure a particular ailing instruction, but rather whether the ailing instruction by itself so infected the entire trial that the resulting conviction violates due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a single instruction to a jury may not be judged in artificial isolation, but must be viewed in the context of the overall charge,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sales v. Harris · Mancuso v. Harris“a person is presumed to intend the natural and probable consequences of his acts,”
2 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.