Paradis v. Arave’s Empirical Analysis
954 F.2d 1483 · 1992
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2011 · most notably Boardman v. Estelle (1992), United States v. Cooper (1993)
28 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Coleman v. Thompson · Murray v. Carrier
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere failure to preserve evidence which could have been subjected to tests which might have exonerated the defendant does not constitute a due process violation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an exculpatory value that was apparent before the evidence was destroyed, and [is] of such a nature that a defendant would be unable to obtain comparable evidence by other reasonably available means.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the lack of blood on Palmer's jeans does not render the jury's verdict irrational. The jury could have rationally inferred from all the evidence that any blood on the jeans was washed away by the combined effect of rain water and the flow of the stream.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Paradis v. Arave
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.