United States v. Castro’s Empirical Analysis
908 F.2d 85 · 1990
Citation profile
102 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 156 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably United States v. Moreno (1991), United States v. Martinez (2005)
102 federal appellate ·
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. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Young · United States v. Calandra · Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Hoffa v. United States · Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co.
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 156 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Inappropriate remarks by the prosecutor do not alone justify reversal of a criminal conviction in an otherwise fair proceeding, as long as the jury's ability to judge the evidence fairly remains intact.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]lthough it strongly appears that [Reeves] was not denied effective assistance of counsel, this court declines to consider the claim of ineffective assistance of counsel for the first time on appeal.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to deny a defendant a fair trial, prosecutorial misconduct and improper argument must be 'so pronounced and persistent that it permeate[d] the entire atmosphere of the trial.'”
7 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.