Beam v. Foltz’s Empirical Analysis
832 F.2d 1401 · 1987
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2005
13 federal appellate · 4 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 Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Blockburger v. United States · United States v. Wade · North Carolina v. Pearce
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ven if this were a direct appeal, these factors would militate against our upsetting the verdict of the jury, and in a habeas corpus case they militate still more strongly in favor of letting the verdict stand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not believe either that the jury could have been under any misapprehension as to what the law actually requires or that the prosecutor's statement was so egregious as to render the trial fundamentally unfair.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the prosecutor [did] not seem to have tried deliberately to mislead the jury, and the eyewitness testimony against the accused was very strong.”
2 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.