Procunier v. Atchley’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
223 federal appellate · 53 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 498 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Lego v. Twomey (1972), Keeney v. Tamayo-Reyes (1992)
223 federal appellate · 53 district · 85 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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
reviewedWilson v. Atchley (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Townsend v. Sain · Escobedo v. Illinois · Jackson v. Denno · Johnson v. State of New Jersey
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 498 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A]n applicant for federal habeas corpus is [not] entitled to a new hearing on the voluntariness issue, in either the federal or state courts, merely because he can point to shortcom ings in the procedures used to decide the issue of voluntariness in the state courts. Our decisions make clear that he must also show that his version of events, if true, would require the conclusion that his confession was involuntary.” 2”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in light of the totality of the circumstances”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only in establishing a setting in which actual coercion might have been exerted to overcome the will of the suspect”
4 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.