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838 F.2d 764 · 1988

Citation profile

69
cited by 69 later decisions
4
states following
September 2012
most recently cited

26 federal appellate · 19 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably Rousseau v. State (1993), Drinkard v. Johnson (1996)

26 federal appellate · 19 state decisions

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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 Beck v. Alabama · Keeble v. United States · B.D. International Discount Corp. v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. · Logarusic v. United States · Hopper v. Evans

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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “if the jury could rationally acquit on the capital crime and convict for the noncapital crime.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. East v. Scott · 269 F. Supp. 2d 784 - Reed v. Cockrell
  2. “a lesser included offense instruction should be given 'if the evidence would permit a jury rationally to find [a defendant] guilty of the lesser offense and acquit him of the greater.'”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Rousseau v. State · Lincecum v. Collins
  3. “*1006 First, the lesser included offense must be included within the proof necessary to establish the offense charged. Secondly, there must be some evidence in the record that if the defendant is guilty, he is guilty of only the lesser charge.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. East v. Scott · Lincecum v. Collins

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.