Willard v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
823 F.2d 1141 · 1987
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably United States v. Barnes (1990), United States v. McClinton (1998)
27 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Stone v. Powell · Engle v. Isaac · Smith v. Phillips · Sheppard v. Maxwell
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.
“Due process requires ... that the trial court hold a hearing to determine if the potentially compromising situation has ... actually prejudiced the defendant.”). 7 .The majority's insistence that there were multiple”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Godoy v. Spearman
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.