Clark v. Moran’s Empirical Analysis
942 F.2d 24 · 1991
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably United States v. Innamorati (1993), Carter v. City of Philadelphia (1999)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · Arizona v. Fulminante · Rochin v. People of California · Harrington v. California
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.
“there must be 'no reasonable doubt' that the jury would have reached the same verdict without having received the tainted evidence”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[C]ourts have found [an] error to be harmless when the [remaining] evidence . . . provided 'overwhelming evidence' of the defendant's guilt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a diligent and conscientious attempt to evaluate the evidence, and to verify the testimony of different witnesses and to come to a careful and reasoned decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.