Felde v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
795 F.2d 400 · 1986
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably State v. Tyler (1990), 45 Cal. 3d 915 - People v. Guzman (1988)
17 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Harris v. New York · Drope v. Missouri · Bailey v. Butcher · Maggio v. Fulford
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.
“so insubstantial that (in probability) but for the remarks no conviction would have occurred.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Black · Bridge v. Lynaugh“[i]n federal habeas actions, improper jury argument by the state does not present a claim of constitutional magnitude unless it is so prejudicial that the petitioner's state court trial was rendered fundamentally unfair within the meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process clause.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bridge v. Lynaugh · Byrne v. Butler
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.