Duncan v. Stynchcombe’s Empirical Analysis
704 F.2d 1213 · 1983
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably United States v. Johnson (1983), United States v. Butler (1986)
17 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Goldstein v. United States · McElroy, Warden v. Holloway · Chambers v. Texas · Holloway v. McElroy
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] comment on the failure of the defense, as opposed to that of the defendant, to counter or explain the testimony presented or evidence introduced is not an infringement of the defendant's fifth amendment privilege.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. Wainwright“there has been no evidence in this case from the defense at all that Duncan was not in that house”
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.