Gross v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
773 F.2d 116 · 1985
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably United States v. Scarpa (1990), United States v. Akitoye (1991)
26 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. § 1291
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Wainwright v. Sykes · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · United States v. Iron Shell · Beausoliel v. United States
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[was] made under such circumstances and so recently after the occurrence of the transaction as to preclude the idea of reflection or deliberation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“evidentiary questions are not subject to review by a federal court in a habeas corpus proceeding by a state prisoner unless there is an error of such magnitude as to deny fundamental fairness____ In this area, federal courts must proceed with caution---- To hold otherwise would put federal courts in the role of reviewing courts over the courts of the states even when no constitutional errors have been made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McGowan v. Miller
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.