Franks v. Alford’s Empirical Analysis
820 F.2d 345 · 1987
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2008
6 federal appellate · 7 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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Ohio State Board of Education v. Reed
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.
“[second degree] murder is not a lesser included offense of felony murder because it requires proof of a mental state that felony murder does not.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Swaim v. Hn Scott · State v. Dunn“permit[] a conviction for murder when a death occurs in connection with a defendant's commission of an underlying felony[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an act imminently dangerous to another person and evincing a depraved mind.”
1 later decision 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.