Powell v. Nevada’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 8 district · 143 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 291 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2022 · most notably Davis v. United States (2011), Davis v. United States (2011)
69 federal appellate · 8 district · 143 state decisions — followed in 23 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.
Relationships
Relies on Illinois v. Gates · Estelle v. Gamble · Payton v. New York · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Teague v. Lane
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 291 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a new rule for the conduct of criminal prosecutions that is grounded in the United States Constitution applies retroactively to all cases, state or federal, pending on direct review or not yet final.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Kekona · Bell v. State“[S]elective application of new rules violates the principle of treating similarly situated defendants the same.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“because the statement was not a product of the McLaughlin violation”
2 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.