Thomas v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
587 F.2d 695 · 1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2006
2 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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Michelson v. United States · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actual prejudice, or its absence, must be determined by the facts and circumstances of each case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baldwin v. Blackburn
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.