Mahorney v. Wallman’s Empirical Analysis
917 F.2d 469 · 1990
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Brecheen v. Reynolds (1994), Duvall v. Reynolds (1998)
33 federal appellate · 4 district · 14 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Young · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Darden v. Wainwright · Caldwell v. Mississippi
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I submit to you, under the law and the evidence, that we are in a little different position today than we were when we first started this trial and it was your duty at that time, under the law of this land, as you were being selected as jurors, to actively in your minds presume that man over there not to be guilty of the offense of rape in the first degree, but, you know, things have changed since that time. I submit to you at this time, under the law and under the evidence, that that presumption has been removed, that that presumption no longer exists, that that presumption has been removed by evidence and he is standing before you now guilty. That presumption is not there any more.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Watson v. Boone · Smith v. Mullin“the presumption [of innocence] (1) remains with the accused throughout every stage of the trial, including ... jury deliberations, and (2) is extinguished only upon the jury's determination that guilt has been established beyond a reasonable doubt.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process.”
4 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.