Casillas v. Scully’s Empirical Analysis
769 F.2d 60 · 1985
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably Ronald Davis v. Wayne Strack, Superintendent, Fishkill Correctional Facility and Dennis C. Vacco, New York State Attorney General (2001), Blazic v. Henderson (1990)
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Cupp v. Naughten · Marks v. United States · Beck v. Alabama · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Bouie v. City of Columbia
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n order to obtain a writ of habeas corpus in federal court on the ground of error in a state court's instructions to the jury on matters of state law, the petitioner must show not only that the instruction misstated state law but also that the error violated a right guaranteed to him by federal law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“persons have a right to fair warning of that conduct which will give rise to criminal penalties....”
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.