Leverett v. Spears’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 921 · 1989
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably United States v. Chandler (1993), Leavitt v. Arave (2004)
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Chapman v. State of California · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Engle v. Isaac
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The standard in determining whether the admission of prejudicial evidence constitutes a denial of fundamental fairness is whether the evidence is 'material in the sense of a crucial, critical highly significant factor.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Petitioner both argued for and submitted the written jury instructions [he now challenges]. Therefore, the doctrine of invited error applies to preclude petitioner from complaining of this error on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leavitt v. Arave · Leavitt v. Arave
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.