Hance v. Zant’s Empirical Analysis
696 F.2d 940 · 1983
Citation profile
101 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 191 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2018 · most notably Wainwright v. Witt (1985), Gray v. Mississippi (1987)
101 federal appellate · 3 district · 34 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Chapman v. State of California · Wong Sun v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · In the Matter of Samuel Winship
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 191 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the application of legal principles to the historical facts of [the] case.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Kemp · Wallace v. Kemp“(5) that the applicant was an indigent and the State court, in deprivation of his constitutional right, failed to appoint counsel to represent him in the State court proceeding;”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brooks v. Francis · Wallace v. Kemp“the prosecutor's actions were so egregious as to render the trial fundamentally unfair.”
4 later decisions 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.