Fencl v. Abrahamson’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 760 · 1988
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably 139 Ill. 2d 89 - People v. Hayes (1990), Prihoda v. McCaughtry (1990)
27 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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Doyle v. Ohio
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“assess, as precisely as we can, the impact of the objectionable material on the jury's verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the intensity and frequency of the references, (2) which party elected to pursue the line of questioning, (3) the use to which the prosecution put the silence, (4) the trial judge’s opportunity to grant a motion for a mistrial or to give a curative instruction, and (5) the quantum of other evidence indicative of guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[O]ur task, in assessing whether [an] error was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt is not to engage simply in a reweighing of the evidence. Rather ... we must assess, as precisely as we can, the impact of the objectionable material on the jury’s verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sulie v. Duckworth
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.