Stewart v. Corbin’s Empirical Analysis
850 F.2d 492 · 1988
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Duckett v. Godinez (1995), In Re Davis (2004)
31 federal appellate · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Illinois v. Allen · Estelle v. Williams · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Scharffe v. Perkins
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he appellate court is not in as favorable a position as the trial court to determine the effect of the defendant's disruptive conduct on the proceedings. Even though facial expressions, gestures, and other nonverbal conduct are significant, they cannot be transcribed by the court reporter. Also, the reaction of jurors and witnesses is easily observed by the trial judge but seldom appears in the written record. Therefore, great deference must be given to the decision of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Mott“[i]ssue ... is not whether in retrospect, the trial court could have handled the matter better, but rather, whether the trial court denied appellant a fair trial under the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spain v. Rushen“is left to the discretion of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spain v. Rushen
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.