Hearn v. Mintzes’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.2d 1072 · 1983
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2006 · most notably Lundy v. Campbell (1989), United States v. Moore (1990)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 Griffin v. California · Lockett v. Ohio · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Engle v. Isaac · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to reflect on the accused's silence or of such a character that the jury would”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the testimony of [complainant] was in many respects inconsistent; other witnesses strongly suggested that [complainant] knew [defendant] and willingly went to his apartment after embracing him in the hall.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lent v. Wells“an outwardly relaxed 'complainant' seated in the proximity of a door to the hallway, with a highball in her hand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lent v. Wells
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.