Jurek v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 11 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 129 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2015 · most notably 105 Wash. 2d 778 - Hangman Ridge Training Stables, Inc. v. Safeco Title Insurance (1986), McCarthy v. Northwest Airlines, Inc. (1995)
29 federal appellate · 11 district · 44 state decisions — followed in 11 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.
Relationships
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Jurek v. Estelle
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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Without intimating any views on the merits of the questions presented to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas in petitioner's pending application for a writ of habeas corpus, (the) petition for (a) writ of certiorari (is) denied . . ..”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jurek v. Estelle
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.