Etherton v. Rivard’s Empirical Analysis
800 F.3d 737 · 2015
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021
1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Olano · Crawford v. Washington · Murray v. Carrier
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the jury could have improperly concluded that Pollie was thereby testifying truthfully-that it was unlikely for it to be a coincidence for his testimony to line up so well with the anonymous accusation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“repeated references both to the existence and the details of the content of the tip went far beyond what was necessary for background,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because much of Pollie's testimony was reflected in the content of the tip that was put before the jury,”
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.