Stevens v. Bordenkircher’s Empirical Analysis
746 F.2d 342 · 1984
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably United States v. Christian (1986), United States v. Riascos-Suarez (1996)
38 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 · Davis v. Alaska · Ohio v. Roberts · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'whether the jury was otherwise in possession of sufficient information concerning formative events to make a 'discriminating appraisal' of a witness' motive and bias.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“whether the constitutional error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“exploring a witness' bias, prejudice, or motive for testifying.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.