Resnover v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
965 F.2d 1453 · 1992
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently January 2013 · most notably Diversey Corp. v. Chem-Source Corp. (1998), Williams v. Washington (1995)
22 federal appellate · 5 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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Townsend v. Sain · Teague v. Lane
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Procedural default ... occurs when a claim could have been but was not presented to the state court and cannot, at the time that the federal court reviews the habeas petition, be presented to the state court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McClain v. Deuth · Stone v. Farley“we must view the instructions as a whole and consider the challenged instruction both in the context of the other instructions given and in light of the allegations of the complaint, the opening and closing arguments, and the evidence of the record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It’s been a long time since these guys killed my detective. This gun, in his hands took my detective’s life. There’s another rule that says we [lawyers] can’t testify, we can’t give facts. Well, I was Jack Ohrberg’s associate in law enforcement for a long time. And as he was Homicide Supervisor and, I was his lawyer---- Now I don’t want these guys convicted of anything because my friend died. I want them convicted because they did it.”
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.