Howell v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
566 F.2d 469 · 1978
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2011
5 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Bullock v. United States · Howell v. Jones · Kehoe v. United States
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“collaterally estop the effect of an already concluded prior proceeding.”). 3 . Of course, the father”
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.