Soap v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
632 F.2d 872 · 1980
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2007 · most notably Runnels v. Hess (1981), Bowser v. Boggs (1994)
11 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rulings on the appointment and qualifications of interpreters do not reach constitutional proportions. See Fairbanks v. Cowan, 6 Cir., 551 F.2d 97, 99 . Whatever problems there may be with the testimony of [an interpreter] go to the sufficiency of the evidence.”
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.