Niziolek v. Ashe’s Empirical Analysis
694 F.2d 282 · 1982
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably United States v. Christian (1986), United States v. Kobrosky (1983)
51 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 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. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Rose v. Lundy · Sandstrom v. Montana · Cupp v. Naughten · Rideout 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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trial court may limit cross-examination only after there has been permitted, as a matter of right, a certain threshold level of cross-examination which satisfies the constitutional requirement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ ‘sufficient other information ..., without the excluded evidence, to make a discriminating appraisal of the possible biases and motivations of the witness.’ ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t must be established not merely that the instruction is undesirable, erroneous, or even universally condemned, but that it violated some right which was guaranteed to the defendant by the Fourteenth Amendment.”
1 later decision 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.