Sober v. Crist’s Empirical Analysis
644 F.2d 807 · 1981
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Bashor v. Risley (1984), United States v. Newman (1990)
28 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Townsend v. Sain · McMann v. Richardson · McCarthy v. United States · Morissette v. United States · Tollett 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he record need not necessarily show that every element of the crime was explained in detail to defendant....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he accused should be made aware of possible defenses, at least where the attorney or court is made aware of facts that would constitute such a defense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Creech v. Arave · Creech v. Arave
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.