Thomas v. Arn’s Empirical Analysis
728 F.2d 813 · 1984
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2015 · most notably Thomas v. Arn (1986), Willis v. Sullivan (1991)
31 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on United States v. Walters · Britt v. Simi Valley Unified School District · Mannino v. International Manufacturing Co. · Bell v. Arn
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to note that if I were to reach the merits of this case, I would grant the writ of habeas corpus. In my view, the trial court’s exclusion of expert testimony on the “battered wife syndrome” impuned the fundamental fairness of the trial process thereby depriving Thomas of her constitutional right to a fair trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.