Travis v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Smittie v. Al Lockhart (1988), Maxwell v. State (1989)
55 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 Strickland v. Washington · Boykin v. Alabama · United States v. Frady · United States v. Cronic · Walker 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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At some point we are entitled to presume that the convicted defendant has exhausted his state remedies and stands fairly and finally convicted, (cite omitted). The need for stability of judgments in criminal cases requires that the petitioner raise whatever issues he may desire to raise within the reasonable time set by our procedural rules.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maxwell v. State“so basic that the judgment is a complete nullity, such as a judgment obtained in a court without jurisdiction ... or a judgment obtained in violation of the double jeopardy clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Issues not sufficient to void the conviction are waived even though they are of constitutional dimension”
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.