Wells v. Stallings’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Escobedo v. Illinois · Diaz v. United States · Wade v. Mayo · Englert v. S. Birch & Sons Construction Co. · James Howard v. Commonwealth of Kentucky
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * [T]he primary responsibility to correct federal constitutional errors which vitiate a state conviction rests upon the state courts, and * * * the state courts are better equipped to process the complaints than the federal courts.””
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.