Joyner v. King’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 1317 · 1986
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Dennis Thurl Dowthitt v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division (2000), Barrientes v. Johnson (2000)
22 federal appellate ·
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) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Giglio v. United States · Townsend v. Sain · Stone v. Powell · Rose v. Lundy · California v. Southland Royalty Co.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“new factual allegations in support of a previously asserted legal theory”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the credibility of a [prosecution] witness is a critical issue in a criminal case and proof of any understanding or agreement [between the witness and the prosecution] is relevant to a witness’ credibility, the defendant has a right to bring this to the jury’s attention____ To deny the defendant the opportunity to present to the jury any promises, agreements, and understanding between the [prosecution] and a key prosecution witness deprives the defendant of due process of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in a significantly different and stronger evidentiary posture than it was before the state courts.”
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.