McCrae v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
793 F.2d 684 · 1986
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2002
10 federal appellate · 1 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 · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · United States v. Tucker · Evitts v. Lucey · G. M. Leasing Corp. 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is thus apparent to us that [petitioner's] rap sheet shows a pattern of conduct deserving a longer sentence than that indicated for his codefendant....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carsetti v. Maine
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.