Lowery v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
988 F.2d 1364 · 1993
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State v. Snowden (2005), Thomas v. United States (2006)
26 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Chapman v. State of California · Franks v. Delaware · Pointer v. Texas · California v. Green · Idaho v. Wright
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on the evidence that violated [Jones's] confrontation right, not the sufficiency of the evidence remaining after excision of the tainted evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no reasonable possibility that the tainted evidence might have contributed to the jury's verdict of guilty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a defendant convicted on the basis of constitutionally inadmissible evidence is entitled to a new trial unless the error 'was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt'--i.e., that there [wa]s [no] reasonable possibility that the evidence complained of might have contributed to the conviction”
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.