Lopez v. Riley’s Empirical Analysis
865 F.2d 30 · 1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 875 F. Supp. 182 - Roberts v. Scully (1995), 990 F. Supp. 267 - Green v. Artuz (1998)
3 federal appellate ·
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 United States v. Mechanik · United States v. Midland Asphalt Corp. · Saldana v. State of New York · In re Padilla
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he petit jury’s subsequent guilty verdict means not only that there was probable cause to believe that the defendants were guilty as charged, but also that they are in fact guilty as charged beyond a reasonable doubt. Measured by the petit jury’s verdict, then, any error in the grand jury proceeding connected with the charging decision was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where a properly instructed petit jury heard all relevant evidence and convicted”
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.