Saldano v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
363 F.3d 545 · 2004
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Ross, Nelson v. Quarterman (2006)
9 federal appellate · 3 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
Relationships
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Zant v. Stephens · McCleskey v. Kemp · Lawrence v. Texas · Trbovich v. United Mine Workers
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Following the Supreme Court's ruling in Saldano, four other state inmates, [including Garcia,] each of whom had been sentenced to death as a result of punishment-phase hearings in which [the psychologist] gave substantially similar testimony, petitioned for federal writs of habeas corpus. The Attorney General confessed error in each case and, in each, the federal court vacated the death sentence and granted a new sentencing -hearing.” Saldano v. Roach, 363 F.3d 545 , 549 n. 2 (5th Cir.2004). 10 . 1 RR (2001) at 20-26. Citations to “RR” herein refer to the”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Garcia v. Stephens“opined that there was a correlation between race and ethnicity and future dangerousness,” noting that the prosecutor”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“one which the substantive law recognizes as belonging to or being owned by the applicant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ross
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.