Peltier v. Henman’s Empirical Analysis
997 F.2d 461 · 1993
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2010 · most notably United States of America v. Fritz Arlo Looking Cloud. (2005), 926 F. Supp. 1387 - Warner v. United States (1996)
22 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · Carnegie v. United States · Sanders v. United States · United States v. Socony-Vacuum Oil Co.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]mission of the claim will not be excused merely because evidence discovered later might also have supported or strengthened the claim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(A) The government tried the case on alternative theories: it asserted that Peltier personally killed the agents at point blank range, but that if he had not done so, then he was equally guilty of their murder as an aider and abettor[; and] (B) [t]he government’s statement at the prior oral argument, upon which Pel-tier relies, was not a concession that the government had not proved that Peltier had not killed the agents personally, and that Peltier’s conviction could be sus- tamed only on an aiding and abetting theory.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the government tried him and he was convicted solely on the theory that he personally shot the agents at point blank range; and that during the oral argument before [the Eighth Circuit], the government admitted that his conviction could not be sustained on that theory.”
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.