Bright v. Shimoda’s Empirical Analysis
819 F.2d 227 · 1987
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably United States v. Dischner (1992), Kenneth W. Wood v. State of Alaska (1992)
14 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
Relies on Davis v. Alaska · Chambers v. Mississippi · Delaware v. Fensterer · Johnson v. United States · Gemelli v. Pennsylvania
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in possession of sufficient information upon which to make a discriminating appraisal of the subject matter at issue.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when substantial cross-examination has taken place, courts are less inclined to find confrontation clause violations”
5 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.