Torrey v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
842 F.2d 234 · 1988
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably United States v. Keller (1990), United States v. Wills (1989)
65 federal appellate · 18 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Boykin v. Alabama · Hill v. Lockhart · Brady v. United States · McMann v. Richardson
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a definite, immediate and largely automatic effect on the range of the defendant's punishment.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the hands of another government agency or ... the defendant himself.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to satisfy the due process requirement that the plea be voluntary, 'a defendant is entitled to be informed of the direct consequences of the plea,' although it is not necessary to inform him of 'all possible collateral consequences.'”
5 later decisions 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.