Richards v. Solem’s Empirical Analysis
693 F.2d 760 · 1982
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably Sidebottom v. Delo (1995), Graham v. Solem (1984)
17 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Griffin v. California · Stone v. Powell
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant alone had the information to do so.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[F]ailure to follow state procedures makes out a constitutional violation only if the failure to follow them renders the proceedings so fundamentally unfair they are inconsistent with the rudimentary demands of fair procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Maloney“is not of a nature that exculpatory information would be exclusively in the. defendant’s possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sidebottom v. Delo
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.