Crane v. Sowders’s Empirical Analysis
889 F.2d 715 · 1989
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 2020
4 federal appellate · 3 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 · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Fahy v. Connecticut · Crane v. Kentucky · Garber 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the noncumulative nature of the excluded evidence and the weakness of the prosecution's case when considered in light of the evidence of the unreliability of Crane's confession mandate that the error was not harmless.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Considering the importance of Crane's confession to the State's case, the exclusion of evidence bearing on its credibility violates principles of procedural fairness.”
2 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.