Morgan v. Aispuro’s Empirical Analysis
946 F.2d 1462 · 1991
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2024
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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
Relies on Illinois v. Allen · Estelle v. Williams · Lane v. Peterson · Holbrook v. Flynn · Delaware v. New York
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All a federal [or a reviewing] court may do in such a situation is look at the scene presented to jurors and determine whether what they saw was so inherently prejudicial as to pose an unacceptable threat to defendant's right to a fair trial; if the challenged practice is not found inherently prejudicial and if the defendant fails to show actual prejudice, the inquiry is over.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The right to a fair trial, guaranteed by the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments, includes the presumption of innocence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no reason ... to infer that [Walden] specifically was the reason for [the jury escort],”
2 later decisions 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.