Hall v. Hl Whitley’s Empirical Analysis
935 F.2d 164 · 1991
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Duckett v. Godinez (1995), Carriger v. Lewis (1992)
33 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · United States v. Frady · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Syncom Capital Corp. v. Wade · Portland Feminist Women's Health Center v. Advocates for Life, Inc.
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Put in proper context, the comments were isolated moments in a three day trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so fundamentally unfair as to deny him due process.”
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.