Eckert v. Tansy’s Empirical Analysis
936 F.2d 444 · 1991
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably United States v. Hill (1992), Tyson v. Trigg (1995)
26 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Blockburger v. United States · Solem v. Helm · Rummel v. Estelle · Taylor v. Illinois
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was willful and motivated by a desire to gain a tactical advantage that would minimize the effectiveness of cross-examination and the ability to adduce rebuttal evidence, it would be entirely consistent with the purposes of the Compulsory Process Clause simply to exclude the witness' testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the gravity of the offense and harshness of the penalty; (2) the comparison with sentences imposed on other criminals in the same jurisdiction; and (3) where appropriate, the comparison with sentences imposed for commission of the same crime in other jurisdictions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Maass“To determine whether a sentence imposes cruel and unusual punishment, we consider whether the sentence is disproportionate to the crime committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilson v. Maass
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.