Takacs v. Engle’s Empirical Analysis
768 F.2d 122 · 1985
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably United States v. Schreane (2003), Moss v. United States (2003)
33 federal appellate · 1 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Barker v. Wingo · Davis v. Alaska · United States v. Cronic
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not irrational to rely on uncorroborated accomplice testimony, and a rational trier of fact could therefore have found [defendant] guilty beyond a reasonable doubt based solely on [a co-conspirator's] testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there can be no constitutional right to instruct the jury that it must find corroboration for an accomplice's testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Turnpaugh v. Foltz“Ohio requires a 'voluntary act' as an element of every crime.”
1 later decision 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.