Garza v. Wolff’s Empirical Analysis
528 F.2d 208 · 1975
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2013
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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.
Relationships
Relies on Roger Lee McQueen v. Harold R. Swenson, Warden · Falk v. Brennan · DeBerry v. Wolff · Scalf v. Bennett · Taylor v. Minnesota
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Stringent as the “mockery of justice” standard may seem, we have never intended it to be used as a shibboleth to avoid a searching evaluation of possible constitutional violations; nor has it been so used in this circuit. It was not intended that the “mockery of justice” standard be taken literally, but rather that it be employed as an embodiment of the principle that a petitioner must shoulder a heavy burden in proving unfairness. [Id. at 214.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Wyrick
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.