Howard v. Beto’s Empirical Analysis
375 F.2d 441 · 1967
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 1980 · most notably Ex Parte Duffy (1980), Fitzgerald v. Estelle (1974)
13 federal appellate · 13 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · Mapp v. Ohio · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Linkletter v. Walker
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.
““It is the latter that opens a judgment to challenge by habeas corpus. Here the attorneys’ alleged incompetence cannot be imputed to the state (citing authorities).””
3 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.