Bagby v. Sowders’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 792 · 1990
Citation profile
47 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Gall v. Parker (2000), Campbell v. Coyle (2001)
47 federal appellate · 2 district · 4 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 Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Griffin v. California · Stone v. Powell · Michigan v. Long
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a complete miscarriage of justice [] or an omission inconsistent with the rudimentary demands of fair procedure.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“manifestly intended by the prosecutor as a comment on the defendant’s failure to testify or were of such a character that the jury would naturally and reasonably take them to be comments on the failure of the accused to testify.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here ... the highest court of a state has reviewed a defendant's request for a lesser included offense instruction and concluded that it is not warranted by the evidence elicited at trial, that conclusion is axiomatically correct, as a matter of state law. Accordingly, the circumstances that would induce a federal court to overturn the state court determination would need to be extraordinary, indeed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bates v. Rc Lee
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.