Nevels v. Parratt’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 344 · 1979
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2013
14 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 Chapman v. State of California · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Padilla-Martinez v. United States · McClain v. United States · United States v. Easter
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“exercised his best trial judgment in deciding not to ask for a mistrial and should not be [second-guessed] on this decision at this stage of the proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“failed to exercise the customary skills and diligence that a reasonably competent attorney would exercise under similar circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Walker v. Solem
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.