Ex Parte Reed’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Moore v. Texas (2017), Pena, Jose Luis (2011)
2 federal appellate · 51 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas 21st Judicial District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Atkins v. Virginia · Ex Parte Young · Ex Parte Adams · Ex Parte Renier · Ex Parte Davis
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the ultimate factfinder' in habeas corpus proceedings”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen our independent review of the record reveals that the trial judge's findings and conclusions are not supported by the record, we may exercise our authority to make contrary or alternative findings and conclusions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“understandably, become skeptical as to the reliability of the findings and conclusions as a whole. In such cases, we will proceed cautiously with a view toward exercising our own judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Rodriguez
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.