Thompson v. Procunier’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 26 · 1976
Citation profile
17 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 1996 · most notably Tacho v. Martinez (1988), McQuown v. Dj McCartney (1986)
17 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
Relies on Fay v. Noia · In Re Dixon · 9 Cal. 3d 679 - In Re Brown · 2 Cal. 3d 141 - In Re Lopez
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a petition for a writ of habeas corpus presenting a federal constitutional question is denied by a state court with no reason given, we will assume that the state court has had an opportunity to pass upon the merits of the issue and has resolved it against the petitioner.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a state may require that one procedure be used to the exclusion of another so long as the right of review is not foreclosed or unduly limited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kellotat v. Cupp
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.