Cordova v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
351 F.2d 269 · 1965
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently June 1991 · most notably United States v. Parra-Ibanez (1991), Dennis Maxwell v. John W. Turner, Warden, Utah State Prison (1969)
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 Fay v. Noia · Woods Construction Company, Inc., a Corporation v. Pool Construction Company, a Partnership · Miller v. Crouse · Linden v. Dickson
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before a Federal Court accepts such a state court adjudication in a case involving a state prisoner, who has raised a Federal Constitutional question, the judge must first examine the state court record and satisfy himself that such adjudication is fairly supported by the facts and that there is no `vital flaw' in the state court adjudication.”
2 later decisions 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.