Darnell v. Swinney’s Empirical Analysis
823 F.2d 299 · 1987
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably Prantil v. California (1988), McSherry v. Block (1989)
23 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Jackson v. Virginia · Cupp v. Naughten · Marks v. United States · Bouie v. City of Columbia · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he petitioner in a habeas proceeding has the burden of demonstrating that an erroneous instruction 'so infected the entire trial that the resulting conviction violates due process.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The principle underlying Bouie ... is that due process forbids the imposition of criminal penalties against a defendant who had no fair warning that his conduct violated the law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Before a federal court may overturn a conviction resulting from a state trial in which [an erroneous] instruction was used, it must be established not merely that the instruction is undesirable, erroneous, or even 'universally condemned,' but that it violated some right which was guaranteed to the defendant by the Fourteenth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gracia v. Magarian
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.