Selvage v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013 · most notably United States v. Pineda-Ortuno (1992), Selvage v. Collins (1991)
11 federal appellate · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Penry v. Lynaugh · Smith v. Murray · Brendale v. Confederated Tribes & Bands of the Yakima Indian Nation · Colony Square Co. v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because our decision in Penry was handed down after petitioner’s petition for certiorari was filed, and may have affected the view of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on the issue of whether petitioner’s claim is presently barred, we think the issue should be decided before we address the question on which we granted certiorari. The Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit is more familiar with Texas law than we are, and we therefore vacate the judgment of the Court of Appeals and remand the case to it for determination of whether petitioner’s Penry claim is presently procedurally barred under Texas law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Selvage v. Collins
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.