Curtis v. Duval’s Empirical Analysis
124 F.3d 1 · 1997
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 27 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Lambert v. Blodgett (2004), Horton v. Allen (2004)
32 federal appellate · 27 district · 11 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 Chapman v. State of California · Gideon v. Wainwright · Kotteakos v. United States · Penson v. Ohio · Simmons v. United States
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To apply the paradigm of nonretroactivity required by Teague, we must determine when the petitioner's conviction became final and `whether a state court considering [the petitioner's] claim at the time his conviction became final would have felt compelled by existing precedent to conclude that the rule [he] seeks was required by the Constitution.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kater v. Maloney“giving a sua sponte jury instruction without consulting, and in the absence of, the defendant's attorney ... denies the defendant the assistance of counsel at that critical stage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e cannot peer behind the prosecution's plausible assertion of a legitimate interest in keeping the way clear for a possible future prosecution [of a witness].”
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.