Grant v. Rivers’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2010
1 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 · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. the defendant was presumed innocent; 2. the burden of proof never shifts from the prosecutor to the defendant; 3. the defendant was not obliged to come forward with any evidence; and 4. a failure by the government to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt must result in an acquittal, (emphasis added).”
1 later decision 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.