Connors v. Graves’s Empirical Analysis
538 F.3d 373 · 2008
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably Sossamon v. Lone Star (2009), 688 F. Supp. 2d 598 - Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc. v. Cammarata (2010)
3 federal appellate ·
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Graham v. Connor · Heck v. Humphrey · Beck v. State of Ohio · Tennessee v. Garner · Ballard v. Burton
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“constitutes a claim that his guilty plea was not knowing and voluntary -- an issue properly raised only in either a direct appeal or a habeas proceeding”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Comm'r“admitted to something other than the crime for which he was convicted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Anderson v. Comm'r
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.