Cole v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
817 F.2d 412 · 1987
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably State v. Delva (1991), United States v. Kerley (1988)
47 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association of United States Inc v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company Consumer Alert · Wainwright v. Sykes
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the complete failure to give any jury instruction on an essential element of the offense charged, under circumstances indicating that the jury was not otherwise informed of the necessity of proof of the element is a violation of due process,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The only basis for granting federal habe-as relief is a violation of federal statutory or constitutional law_ “Federal courts hold no supervisory authority over state judicial proceedings and may intervene only to correct wrongs of constitutional dimension.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“every federal court to consider the question since the Court decided In re Winship... has agreed that a conviction procured without any jury instruction on an essential element of the offense is constitutionally invalid.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.