Trest v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
188 federal appellate · 19 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 462 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Day v. McDonough (2006), Cotto v. Herbert (2003)
188 federal appellate · 19 district · 10 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
reviewedSones v. Hargett (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Coleman v. Thompson · Rose v. Lundy · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Jenkins v. Anderson
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 462 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]rocedural default is normally a defense that the State is obligated to raise and preserve if it is not to lose the right to assert the defense thereafter.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“A court of appeals is not `required' to raise the issue of procedural default sua sponte.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“a critical failure to comply with state procedural law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.