James Otis Cunningham v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections’s Empirical Analysis
536 F.2d 82 · 1976
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 1998 · most notably Elliott v. Perez (1985), Molina v. Rison (1989)
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Swain v. State of Alabama · Sanders v. United States · Taylor v. Louisiana · Francis v. Henderson
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by simply varying the factors that he claims demonstrate incompetency”
2 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.