Colley v. Sumner’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 984 · 1986
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Walters v. Maass (1995), Terrovona v. Kincheloe (1988)
23 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State of California · Blockburger v. United States · Brown v. Ohio · Iannelli 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“admission of the testimony was arbitrary or fundamentally unfair.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barr v. Ratelle · Edwards v. Ylst“The testimony was especially probative of identity because ... it .... suggest[ed] that [the defendant] possessed a unique modus operandi.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“described a modus operandi similar in other respects to the one alleged”
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.