Saffle v. Parks’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
565 federal appellate · 106 district · 566 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,798 later decisions (64 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably McCleskey v. Zant (1991), George Smith Warden v. Lee Robbins (2000)
565 federal appellate · 106 district · 566 state decisions — followed in 37 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
reviewedParks v. Brown (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Edwards v. Arizona · Gregg v. Georgia · Teague v. Lane · Lockett v. Ohio
Cited together with Teague v. Lane · Penry v. Lynaugh · Strickland v. Washington · Butler v. McKellar · Sawyer v. Smith
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 1,798 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would have felt compelled by existing precedent to conclude that the rule [petitioner] seeks was required by the Constitution”
118 later decisions quote this exact passage“watershed rules of criminal procedure implicating the fundamental fairness and accuracy of the criminal proceeding.”
51 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“susceptible to debate among reasonable minds,”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.