O'Dell III v. Jd Netherland’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
376 federal appellate · 48 district · 156 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 922 later decisions (15 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2023 · most notably Schriro Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Summerlin (2004), Melvin Tyler v. Burl Cain Warden (2001)
376 federal appellate · 48 district · 156 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 Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Teague v. Lane · Furman v. Georgia · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Eddings v. Oklahoma
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 922 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“watershed rules of criminal procedure implicating the fundamental fairness and accuracy of the criminal proceeding.”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Gall v. Parker · Lave v. Dretke“a case announces a new rule if the result was not dictated by precedent existing at the time the defendant's conviction became final.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a]t bottom, ... the Teague doctrine 'validates reasonable, good-faith interpretations of existing precedents made by state courts even though they are shown to be contrary to later decisions.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Dyer v. Calderon · Smart v. State
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.