McKenzie v. Risley’s Empirical Analysis
842 F.2d 1525 · 1988
Citation profile
62 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2013 · most notably Alabama v. Smith (1989), United States v. Howard (1990)
62 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 18 U.S.C. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 18 U.S.C. § 794 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State of California · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Gregg v. Georgia
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether 'the facts found by the jury were such that it is clear beyond a reasonable doubt that if the jury had never heard the impermissible instruction its verdict would have been the same'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“court shall impose [a] sentence of death ... unless there are mitigating circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Adamson v. Ricketts“a person is presumed to intend the ordinary consequences of his voluntary act”
1 later decision 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.