Torres v. Dubois’s Empirical Analysis
174 F.3d 43 · 1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2013
3 federal appellate · 5 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 Coleman v. Thompson · Harris v. Reed · Francis v. Franklin · O'Brien v. Dubois · Commonwealth v. Torres
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, a federal habeas court defers to a state court's 3Demeritt was represented by counsel who filed a notice of appeal and a brief. Counsel also filed a motion to accept Demeritt's pro se brief. The notation in the court docket is: "Pro se brief denied.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No other indication is given as to the court's decision on the issues raised in Demeritt's pro se brief. 3 articulation of a state law ground for a decision.”
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.