Powell v. Spalding’s Empirical Analysis
679 F.2d 163 · 1982
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably United States v. Vaccaro (1987), Jones v. Wj Estelle (1983)
40 federal appellate · 1 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 Rose v. Lundy · Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman · Brewer v. United States · Federal Power Commission v. Louisiana Power & Light Co. · Whitten v. United States
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must show that that error rendered the trial so `arbitrary and fundamentally unfair' that it violated federal due process.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[the petitioner's] attempt to amend his petition (which negates any inference that [the petitioner] was deliberately withholding the issue) ... convinces us that [the petitioner] would not be barred by the abuse-of-the-writ doctrine from raising the issue in a subsequent federal habeas petition....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Zant“* * * there is no constitutional right to sequestration. Young v. Alabama, 443 F.2d 854 , 856 (5th Cir.1971), cert. den., 405 U.S. 976 , 92 S.Ct. 1202 , 31 L.Ed.2d 251 (1972). * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Powell v. Rose
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.