Leecan v. Lopes’s Empirical Analysis
893 F.2d 1434 · 1990
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably United States v. Yousef (2003), Harsco Corporation v. Segui Mhc Dkm-Mlp & II Lp (1996)
32 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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Doyle v. Ohio · Brown v. Allen · Cupp v. Naughten · Henderson v. Kibbe
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“free to affirm an appealed decision on any ground which finds support in the record, regardless of the ground upon which the trial court relied.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“brief inquiries on cross-examination concerning postarrest silence were warranted by [defendant's] testimony, which would otherwise have left the clear implication that he had proffered his alibi to the police upon surrender”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“no authority to depart from Second Circuit precedent unless it has been overruled in banc or by the Supreme Court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.