Thomas v. Gunter’s Empirical Analysis
962 F.2d 1477 · 1992
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2011
9 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Sumner v. Mata · Ylst v. Nunnemaker · Delaware v. Fensterer · Maryland v. Craig
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“After Craig, a trial court must find that testifying in front of the defendant will cause the child witness emotional trauma, and that the trauma must impair the child's ability to communicate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a mixed question of law and fact we review de novo”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCandless v. Vaughn
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.