Cummings v. Malone’s Empirical Analysis
995 F.2d 817 · 1993
Citation profile
57 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably United States v. Walsh (1999), Walden v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. (1997)
57 federal appellate · 3 district · 2 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 Estelle v. Gamble · Whitley v. Albers · Hudson v. McMillian · Johnson v. Glick · Lee v. Texas
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Federal Rule of Evidence 609 is based on the common sense proposition that one who has transgressed society's norms by committing a felony is less likely than most to be deterred from lying under oath.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the trial judge has discretion under Rule 403 to limit inquiry into past convictions, and in an appropriate case might exclude the names of the specific crimes under Rule 403.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“consistent with the Supreme Court's conclusion that more than de minimis force is necessary”
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.