Linam v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
685 F.2d 369 · 1982
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Caspari Superintendent Missouri Eastern Correctional Center et al Bohlen (1994), United States v. Wacker (1995)
21 federal appellate · 1 district · 13 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 · Lockett v. Ohio · Benton v. Maryland · Green v. United States
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The majority rule appears to require that proof under the habitual offender statute be established beyond a reasonable doubt.”); see also State v. Hennings, Wash.Supr., 100 Wash.2d 379 , 670 P.2d 256, 257 (1983) (observing that, in an habitual criminal proceeding under Washington law, the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. State“is an inquiry as to whether or not the man standing before the court is the same person who was previously convicted as charged. The jury answers yes or no in accordance with the evidence. This is not the kind of adjudication that is referred to in the fifth amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The presentence hearing resembled and, indeed, in all relevant respects was like the immediately preceding trial on the issue of guilt or innocence. It was itself a trial on the issue of punishment so precisely defined by the Missouri statutes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.