Webb v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis
922 F.2d 390 · 1991
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably United States v. Koerth (2002), Felzcerek v. Immigration & Naturalization Service (1996)
16 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Pointer v. Texas · Idaho v. Wright · Maryland v. Craig · Mattox v. United States · Sumner v. Mata
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ultimate question is whether the statements were the product of reflective thought or whether they were the result of the startling event.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Reliability can be inferred without more in a case where the evidence falls within a firmly rooted hearsay exception.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is not likely that a settled hearsay exception will violate any clause of the Constitution.”
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.