Mabry v. Klimas’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Morrissey v. Brewer · Wolff v. McDonnell · Fay v. Noia · Picard v. Connor · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“federal constitutional claim arises from the alleged deprivation by state courts of rights created under state law,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Court of Appeals acknowledged that the omission of discretionary resentencing by a jury [as opposed to an appellate court] would not have prejudiced the respondent if ... he had received the most lenient sentence authorized by law for the offenses of which he had been convicted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dupuy v. Butler“the initial opportunity to pass upon and correct alleged violations of federal rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ply v. State
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.