Ross v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
704 F.2d 705 · 1983
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020
12 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wainwright v. Sykes · United States v. Frady · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Engle v. Isaac
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellate courts are already overburdened with meritless and frivolous cases and contentions, and an effective appellate lawyer does not dilute meritorious claims with frivolous ones. Lawyers representing appellants should be encouraged to limit their contentions on appeal at least to those which may be legitimately regarded as debatable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]rial counsel did not have the benefit of that springboard from which to launch a constitutionally based objection to the [jury] charge....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weaver v. McKaskle“[t]he claim of waiver is not without some support,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reed v. Ross
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.