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Jeffries v. Blodgett’s Empirical Analysis

974 F.2d 1179 · 1992

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
October 2010
most recently cited

13 federal appellate ·

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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Townsend v. Sain · Griffin v. California · Estelle v. McGuire

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.

  1. “make an independent review of the record to determine whether there was such a degree of prejudice against the petitioner that a fair trial was impossible.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “community where the trial was held was saturated with prejudicial and inflammatory media publicity about the crime.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “volume, content, and timing to determine if they were prejudicial.”
    1 later decision 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.