White v. Wj Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 415 · 1983
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2003 · most notably Miller v. Gammie (2003), Billy George Hughes v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice,institutional Division (1999)
8 federal appellate · 3 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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Holloway v. Arkansas · Estelle v. Smith · Battie v. Estelle · Bell v. Watkins
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder the precedent theory of this court, one panel may not overrule the decision of another panel of this court squarely on point and in the absence of intervening and overruling Supreme Court decisions.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Dr. Brown's testimony in this regard was admittedly based upon his court-ordered examination of White. Dr. Brown testified that White had an anti-social 'hedonistic' personality (tied in by subsequent questioning of the witness as being a 'sociopath'), a type of personality in which treatment was both unresponsive and with poor results ... oriented more or less toward the moment and considered little in terms of the future consequences of his acts, and that a sociopath was characterized by an absence of remorse or guilt for past crimes and an inability to profit from past experience. The questioning was obviously directed towards White's propensity for future violence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Woods v. Johnson“[w]e cannot conclude that evidence admitted on a crucial issue in ... a capital case, in violation of White's constitutional rights, constituted harmless error beyond a reasonable doubt. See Holloway v. Arkansas, 435 U.S. 475 , 489-90, 98 S.Ct. 1173, 1181, 55 L.Ed.2d 426 (1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Woods v. Johnson
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.