Thomas v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
582 F.2d 939 · 1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2000
2 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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Dutton v. Evans · Al-Karagholi v. Immigration and Naturalization Service · Hoover v. Beto · Jiminez v. Estelle
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a federal habeas corpus proceeding there is a presumption of correctness that is attached to a state court's fact-findings after a hearing has occurred on the merits of the factual issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jamerson v. Estelle
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.