Powell v. Wyrick’s Empirical Analysis
657 F.2d 222 · 1981
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Santana v. Fenton (1982), Matlock v. Rose (1984)
29 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 WILWORDING Et Al. v. SWENSON, WARDEN · Eaton v. Wyrick · Rodgers v. Wyrick · Triplett v. Wyrick
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“federal courts should defer action only if there is some reasonable probability that (state) relief ... will actually be available....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matias v. Oshiro
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.