Mata v. Sumner’s Empirical Analysis
696 F.2d 1244 · 1983
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2017
8 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Terry v. Ohio · Chapman v. State of California · Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Townsend v. Sain
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Due Process Clause protects solely an evidentiary interest [Manson v. Brathwaite, 432 U.S. 98 , 113, 97 S.Ct. 2243, 2252, 53 L.Ed.2d 140 (1977) ], an interest normally vindicated through the adversarial process of cross-examination, id. at 113-14 N. 14 [97 S.Ct. at 2252, 53 N. 14].”
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.