Thompson v. Borg’s Empirical Analysis
74 F.3d 1571 · 1996
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Jeffries v. Wood (1997), Valerio v. Crawford (2002)
55 federal appellate · 2 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 Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Olano · Kotteakos v. United States · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Arizona v. Fulminante
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Improper argument does not, per se, violate a defendant's constitutional rights.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury's verdict,”
4 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.