David A. Davis v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections’s Empirical Analysis
529 F.2d 437 · 1976
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Washington v. Watkins (1981), Hernandez v. City of Lafayette (1981)
64 federal appellate · 4 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · Argersinger v. Hamlin · Carnley v. Cochran · Burgett v. Texas
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ne panel of this Court cannot disregard the precedent set by a prior panel”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“well settled that a criminal defendant is entitled to counsel at every stage of a criminal proceeding where substantial rights are involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“broad language . . . more expansive than . . . necessary to decide the case, correctly decided on its facts.”
1 later decision 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.