Allen v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
381 federal appellate · 25 district · 334 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,050 later decisions (51 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Teague v. Lane (1989), Griffith v. Kentucky (1987)
381 federal appellate · 25 district · 334 state decisions — followed in 30 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Batson v. Kentucky · Stovall v. Denno · Wainwright v. Sykes · Swain v. State of Alabama · Linkletter v. Walker
Cited together with Batson v. Kentucky · Swain v. State of Alabama · Griffith v. Kentucky · Teague v. Lane · Strickland v. Washington
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 1,050 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) the purpose to be served by the new standards, (b) the extent of the reliance by law enforcement authorities on the old standards, and (c) the effect on the administration of justice of a retroactive application of the new standards.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the judgment of conviction was rendered, the availability of appeal exhausted, and the time for petition for certiorari had elapsed before our decision in Batson.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. High v. Kemp · Teague v. Lane“a fundamental impact on the integrity of factfinding.”
10 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.