Nadworny v. Fair’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gideon v. Wainwright · Stovall v. Denno · Wainwright v. Sykes
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On this record, there is not the slightest suggestion that, had Nadworny's objection to the testimonial aspect of the exemplars been sustained, the Commonwealth would have been unable to provide an eyewitness to testify concerning which hand Nadworny had used to prepare the exemplars.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Nadworny v. Fair“As to involuntary manslaughter, I [Nadworny's counsel] can't see how the Court, under the present state of Massachusetts law, could give a charge allowing such a verdict....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Nadworny v. Fair“exerted some subtle psychological pressure on Nadworny[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Nadworny v. Fair
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.