Barker v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
761 F.2d 1396 · 1985
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably United States v. Zannino (1990), United States v. Layton (1988)
44 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 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 Ohio v. Roberts · Chambers v. Mississippi · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green · 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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the factors surrounding the making of the out-of-court statement, taken as a whole, indicate trustworthiness.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“whether the interests of those who were represented during cross-examination were advanced in a manner that was consistent with the interest of the defendant who lacked such representation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Confrontation Clause promotes accuracy in the criminal process by ensuring that the trier of fact has a satisfactory basis for evaluating the truth of out-of-court statements.”
2 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.