Beachum v. Tansy’s Empirical Analysis
903 F.2d 1321 · 1990
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Ouber v. Guarino (2002), Tapia v. Tansy (1991)
35 federal appellate · 3 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State of California · Batson v. Kentucky · In the Matter of Samuel Winship
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be substantial; that is, it must do more than raise a mere suspicion of guilt.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A conviction can constitutionally stand only if, after viewing all of the evidence presented at the trial in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier-of-fact could have found the essential elements of the crime charged beyond a reasonable doubt.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Due process does not require the rote performance of futile exercises.”
3 later decisions 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.