Williams v. Parke’s Empirical Analysis
741 F.2d 847 · 1984
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2016 · most notably Lowenfield v. Phelps (1988), United States v. Frost (1997)
36 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Wainwright v. Sykes · Allen v. United States · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, 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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'in its context and under all the circumstances' the Allen charge was 'coercive.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Withrow · Jimenez v. Myers“federal trial courts 'hew closely to the language used in the original Allen charge' ... as an exercise of this court's supervisory powers to avoid the difficult 'task of weighing the prejudicial impact of a variation of the approved charge'....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“remind the jurors that no one of them should surrender an honest conviction about the case simply because other jurors disagreed.... The reminder that no juror should merely acquiesce in the majority opinion is therefore one of the most important parts of the Allen charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Camel v. Sowders
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.