Levasseur v. Pepe’s Empirical Analysis
70 F.3d 187 · 1995
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Bailey v. Nagle (1999), Gunter v. Maloney (2002)
13 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Kotteakos v. United States · Coleman v. Thompson · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Manson v. Brathwaite · Dennis v. Dennis
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the extent to which the error permeated the proceeding, (2) the centrality of the issue affected by the error to the case as actually tried, and (3) the relative strength of the properly admitted evidence of guilt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the error substantially affected the jury. Was the properly admitted evidence so strong that it overwhelmed the impact of the [error]?”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“simply because [the] reviewing court fe[els] that [the] petitioner 'would have been convicted even if the constitutional error had not taken place.'”
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.