Barber v. Scully’s Empirical Analysis
731 F.2d 1073 · 1984
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 2006 · most notably Horton v. Allen (2004), State v. Smith (2005)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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 Chapman v. State of California · Barker v. Wingo · Wainwright v. Sykes · Ohio v. Roberts · Dutton v. Evans
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“other claims of error were not included in the district court’s certification of probable cause. [Citations.] Although we have authority to broaden the scope of the appeal if it is ‘just under the circumstances’ to do so, [citation], appellant’s remaining contentions are not of sufficient substance to warrant discussion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Chrans“only if the state prosecutor argued procedural default in the state appellate court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackson v. Scully
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.