Barefoot v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
697 F.2d 593 · 1983
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2017
5 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Agurs · Smith v. Phillips · Estelle v. Smith · Gardner v. Florida · Jurek v. Texas
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“certain egregious evidentiary errors may be redressed by the due process clause.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an unlimited opportunity to make their contentions upon the underlying merits by briefs and oral argument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barefoot v. Estelle“Merits of Appeal: Psychiatric Testimony on Dangerousness,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barefoot v. Estelle
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.