Anderson v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
858 F.2d 16 · 1988
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 4 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. McGill (1993), Ouber v. Guarino (2002)
24 federal appellate · 4 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 · Scharffe v. Perkins · Los Angeles Unified School District v. Los Angeles NAACP · Lambert v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs · Rosano v. United States
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The first thing the ultimately disappointed jurors would believe, in the absence of some other explanation, would be that the doctors were unwilling, viz., unable, to live up to their billing. This they would not forget.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[W]e cannot but conclude that to promise even a condensed recital of such powerful evidence, and then not produce it, could not be disregarded as harmless. We find it prejudicial as matter of law." ( 858 F.2d at 19 .)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Wle might have no quarrel with counsel's decision to call, or not to call [the experts], as a strategic decision, had that matter stood alone ..., but counsel's choice .... was made in the posture of jurors having heard, only the day before, that a psychiatrist and a psychologist would testify....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.