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Reddie McShane Jr. v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections’s Empirical Analysis

683 F.2d 867 · 1982

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
October 1984
most recently cited

6 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Rideout v. United States · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Lyon v. California · Abujasen v. United States · Paprskar v. Estelle

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “However, the rule is not intended automatically to foreclose each petitioner who fails to claim every ground for relief in his first application in federal court. Rule 9(b) recognizes the possibility that a petition may be justified in its delay.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “is of rare and extraordinary application,”
    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.