Ashe v. Styles’s Empirical Analysis
67 F.3d 46 · 1995
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2017
6 federal appellate ·
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 Coleman v. Thompson · Santobello v. New York · Estelle v. McGuire · Pennsylvania v. Finley · Lane v. Peterson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]s is our general practice, we hesitate to adjudicate undecided constitutional issues unnecessarily.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.