Bass v. Wj Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
705 F.2d 121 · 1983
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2005
12 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Adams v. Texas · Barr v. City of Columbia · Burns v. Estelle · Burns v. Estelle · Henry v. Wainwright
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to apply only to situations where the grounds in question were novel and unknown.”
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.