Trussell v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
699 F.2d 256 · 1983
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably Commonwealth v. Drew (1986), United States v. Ramos (1988)
15 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 · Chambers v. Mississippi · Pointer v. Texas · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The Supreme Court, a Justice thereof, a circuit judge, or a district court shall entertain an application for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court only on the ground that he is in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States.” (emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]ederal review of state convictions is confined to the narrow standards of due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The due process rights of an accused have been adequately protected if he has been given the opportunity to present his defense, to cross examine witnesses and to present testimony, see e.g. Washington v. Texas, 388 U.S. 14, 20 , 87 S.Ct. 1920, 1923-1924 , 18 L.Ed.2d 1019 (1967); Pointer v. Texas, 380 U.S. 400 , 85 S.Ct. 1065 , 13 L.Ed.2d 923 (1965); In Re Oliver, 333 U.S. 257 , 68 S.Ct. 499 , 92 L.Ed. 2d 682 (1948). How the defendant chooses to exploit that opportunity is an entirely different concern, for the Constitution does not necessarily serve as a guarantee of counsel’s choice of trial strategy.”
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.