Jones v. Thieret’s Empirical Analysis
846 F.2d 457 · 1988
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably United States v. Restrepo (1991), United States v. White (1989)
44 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Brown v. Allen
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has long been understood that a state may violate its own law without violating the Constitution, e.g., Gryger v. Burke, 334 U.S. 728, 731 , 68 S.Ct. 1256 , 92 L.Ed. 1683 (1948): “We cannot treat a mere error of state law, if one occurred, as a denial of due process; otherwise, every erroneous decision by a state court on state law would come here as a federal constitutional question.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We of course are bound by a State's interpretation of its own statute and will not substitute our judgment for that of the State....”). 9 . Article III of the Illinois Constitution in force at the time Bradley was decided (the Illinois Constitution of 1870) was entitled”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] state may define crime directly (through substantive elements of the offense) or indirectly (through criteria labeled 'sentencing' standards but substantive in operation).”
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.