Allen v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2018
12 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 Whitmore v. Arkansas · Gilmore v. Utah · Parris v. State · Bank South, N.A. v. Howard · Thomas v. State
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We can see no reason to distinguish between waivers of the right to appeal and waivers of the right to seek post-conviction relief from life imprisonment. In each instance, the waivers foster the interests of the state and the defendant in finality.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rawles v. Holt“[t]he defendant can challenge the validity of the agreement via [state] habeas corpus”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Ag Thomas“Allen is bound by the agreement and ... cannot seek relief from his life sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allen v. Ag Thomas
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.