Easter v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
609 F.2d 756 · 1980
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Access Now, Inc. v. Southwest Airlines Co. (2004), Washington v. Watkins (1981)
56 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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
Relies on Swain v. State of Alabama · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Cupp v. Naughten · Tollett v. Henderson · Bates v. State Bar
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“bears a heavy burden when he seeks to show systematic discrimination of constitutionally significant proportions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“counsel reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Spivey v. Zant · Jones v. Estelle“The first part of Easter’s claim is without merit because he fails to state a federal claim upon which federal habeas corpus relief may be granted. It is not enough for Easter to contend that he was deprived of due process because the trial judge failed to charge the jury on the law of criminally negligent homicide since it is a lesser included offense.... This court has previously held that a state trial court judge’s failure to instruct on a lesser included offense is not a federal constitutional matter. Bonner v. Henderson, 517 F.2d 135 (5th Cir.1975); Grech v. Wainwright, 492 F.2d 747 (5th Cir.1974); Alligood v. Wainwright, 440 F.2d 642 (5th Cir.1971). Therefore, we must find that Easter failed to state .a federal claim upon which federal habeas corpus relief may be granted.”
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.