Pitts v. Norris’s Empirical Analysis
85 F.3d 348 · 1996
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2017
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Murray v. Carrier · Schlup v. Delo · Lockhart v. McCree · Sawyer v. Whitley
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The actual innocence exception is concerned with claims of actual, not legal innocence. Anderson v. United States, 25 F.3d 704, 707 (8th Cir. 1994). It is evidence of factual innocence coupled with a constitutional violation which triggers the actual innocence exception. Indeed, a credible claim of actual innocence 'requires [a] petitioner to support his allegation of constitutional error with new reliable evidence [Schlup, 513 U.S. at 324 , 115 S.Ct. 851 .] Examples of evidence which may establish factual innocence include credible declarations of guilt by another, see Sawyer v. Whitley, 505 U.S. 333, 340 , 112 S.Ct. 2514 , 120 L.Ed.2d 269 (1992), trustworthy eyewitness accounts, see Schlup, 513 U.S. [at 324, 115 S.Ct. at 865] ... and exculpatory scientific evidence.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“right, convicting him is not a fundamental miscarriage of justice by any stretch of the imagination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bannister v. Delo
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.