Lent v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
861 F.2d 972 · 1988
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably United States v. Layne (1999), Lundy v. Campbell (1989)
19 federal appellate · 5 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 Chapman v. State of California · Griffin v. California · Lockett v. Ohio · United States v. Robinson · United States v. Robinson
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Were the comments “manifestly intended” to reflect the accused’s silence or of such a character that the jury would “naturally and necessarily” take them as such; (2) Were the remarks isolated or extensive; (3) Was the evidence of guilt otherwise overwhelming; [and] (4) What curative instructions were given, and when.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“some other explanation for the prosecutor's remarks is equally plausible”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“take them as such; 14 2) were the remarks isolated or extensive; 15 3) was the evidence of guilt otherwise overwhelming; 16 4) what curative instructions were given and when. 17 Lent v. Wells, 861 F.2d 972 , 975 (6th Cir. 1988) (citing Hearn v. Mintzes, 708 F.2d 1072 , 1077 (6th Cir. 1983), cert. denied, 489 U.S. 1100 (1989)). 18 The first factor of”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tiedjen v. Parker
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.