Stephens v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
19 F.3d 498 · 1994
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Hatch v. Oklahoma (1995), White v. State of Colorado (1998)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on City of Cleburne Texas v. Cleburne Living Center · Collins v. Youngblood · Vitek v. Jones · Mansion House Center South Redevelopment Co. v. United States · Oklahoma v. New Mexico
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a misapplied existing law which disadvantages one in reliance on its continued misapplication.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At the time of [the petitioner’s] conviction, a prisoner serving a life term possessed no such [liberty] interest in good time credits during the first ten years of his sentence .... The state’s previous practice of misapplying the law does not change this.... The revocation of good time credits from a life term prisoner who has served less than ten years of his sentence, therefore, does not implicate the Due Process Clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Compton v. Lytle“A law violates the Ex Post Facto Clause when it punishes behavior which was not punishable at the time it was committed or increases the punishment beyond the level imposed at the time of commission.”
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.