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Kirkpatrick v. Whitley’s Empirical Analysis

992 F.2d 491 · 1993

Citation profile

51
cited by 51 later decisions
2
states following
January 2011
most recently cited

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

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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.

  1. “any reasonable likelihood that the false testimony could have affected the jury's verdict.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “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
  3. “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 passage

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.