James v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
50 F.3d 1327 · 1995
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2011
12 federal appellate ·
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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wainwright v. Sykes · Teague v. Lane · Murray v. Carrier · United States v. Frady
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“demonstrate that the issues are debatable among jurists of reason; that a court could resolve the issues [in a different manner]; or that the questions are adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ransom v. Johnson“Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S. 880 , 893, 103 S.Ct. 3383, 3394, 77 L.Ed.2d 1090 (1983). Ransom must”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ransom v. Johnson“make a substantial showing that he has been denied a federal right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ransom v. Johnson
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.