Kirkpatrick v. Whitley’s Empirical Analysis
992 F.2d 491 · 1993
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably United States v. Duke (1995), Barrientes v. Johnson (2000)
20 federal appellate · 3 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Townsend v. Sain · Murray v. Carrier
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any reasonable likelihood that the false testimony could have affected the jury's verdict.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“at least with regard to the punishment assessed, is whether the mind of one juror could have been changed”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“On appeal, we review the [district court's] factual findings for clear error; mixed questions of fact and law generally receive independent review, and questions of law are reviewed de novo.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edmond v. Collins
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.