Byrd v. Armontrout’s Empirical Analysis
880 F.2d 1 · 1989
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2010 · most notably Herrera v. Collins (1993), State v. Perez (2009)
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Wainwright v. Sykes · Townsend v. Sain · Witherspoon v. Illinois
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it bears upon the constitutionality of the petitioner's detention”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cornell v. Nix · Cornell v. Nix“probably produce an acquittal on retrial”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cornell v. Nix · Cornell v. Nix“The policies furthered by proper application of the marital privilege in any of its forms are quite distinct from the concerns for fairness and reliability protected by the Due Process Clause. Thus, Byrd's argument that the privilege was misapplied, even if it were correct, would not establish a constitutional due process violation.”
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.