Carriger v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
971 F.2d 329 · 1992
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 161 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Carriger v. Stewart (1997), William Jones v. Ml Smith Attorney General State of California (2000)
100 federal appellate · 9 district ·
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 · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · 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 161 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“considerable discretion to limit cross-examination.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the ailing instruction by itself so infected the entire trial that the resulting conviction violates due process.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'It is not sufficient that the jury instruction is erroneous; rather the petitioner must establish that there was a reasonable likelihood that the jury applied the instruction in a way that violated a constitutional right.'”
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.