Francis v. Spraggins’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 1190 · 1983
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 52 Cal. 3d 367 - People v. Wright (1990), Scarpa v. Dubois (1994)
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 23 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Godfrey v. Georgia · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Innkeepers of New Castle, Inc. v. Maley · Bradley v. J. F. Batte & Sons of Richmond, Inc.
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“complete concession of the defendant's guilt”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where a capital defendant, by his testimony as well as his plea, seeks a verdict of not guilty, counsel, though faced with strong evidence against his client, may not concede the issue of guilt merely to avoid a somewhat hypocritical presentation during the sentencing phase and thereby maintain his credibility before the jury. Even though an adverse verdict would have the effect of precluding further argument on the issue of guilt, counsel does not have license to anticipate that effect and to concede the issue during the guilt/innocence phase simply because an adverse verdict appears likely.” 720 F.2d 1190, 1194 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“I think he did, from the evidence that the State has put up, I think he went in the house and I think he committed the crime of murder probably”
3 later decisions 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.