Angel v. Overberg’s Empirical Analysis
682 F.2d 605 · 1982
Citation profile
108 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Lundy v. Campbell (1989), Byrd v. Collins (2000)
108 federal appellate ·
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 Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Delli Paoli v. United States · Hutton v. United States · United States v. Leon · United States v. Bess
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In every case, we consider the degree to which the remarks complained of have a tendency to mislead the jury and to prejudice the accused; whether they are isolated or extensive; whether they were deliberately or accidentally placed before the jury, and the strength of the competent proof to establish the guilt of the accused.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“two plausible interpretations can be given to a prosecutor's ambiguous final argument, the court should not strive to adopt the one which casts doubt upon the prosecutor's intentions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“extreme nature of prosecutorial misconduct required for a federal court to issue the writ.”
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.