Geschwendt v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
967 F.2d 877 · 1992
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Ramseur v. Beyer (1992), State v. Yoh (2006)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 8 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Arizona v. Fulminante · Estelle v. McGuire · Pointer v. Texas
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is harmless provided the jury returns a guilty verdict for an offense higher up rather than for an intermediate offense which was also charged,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[I]t is well established that a state court's misapplication of its own law does not generally raise a constitutional claim. The federal courts have no supervisory authority over state judicial proceedings and may intervene only to correct wrongs of constitutional dimension.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Horn · Kontakis v. Beyer“it is not the province of a federal habeas court to reexamine state court determinations on state law questions. In conducting habeas review, a federal court is limited to deciding whether a conviction violated the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Horn
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.