Alexander v. McCotter’s Empirical Analysis
775 F.2d 595 · 1985
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Yohey v. Collins (1993), Nichols v. Scott (1995)
38 federal appellate · 6 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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Engle v. Isaac · Beck v. Alabama
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he sufficiency of a state indictment is not a matter for federal habeas corpus relief unless it can be shown that the indictment is so defective that the convicting court had no jurisdiction.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]hen it appears . . . that the sufficiency of the indictment was squarely presented to the highest court of the state on appeal, and the court held that the trial court had jurisdiction over the case, the issue is foreclosed to a federal habeas court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[W]hether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weeks v. Scott · Valles v. Lynaugh
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.