Escalera v. Coombe’s Empirical Analysis
852 F.2d 45 · 1988
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably United States v. Portela (1999), Tyson v. Trigg (1995)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 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 United States v. Wade · Neil v. Biggers · Taylor v. Illinois · Berry Estates, Inc. v. Regan · Hyatt v. Heckler
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he absence of a good excuse is not necessarily commensurate with ‘willful’ conduct.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any reconsideration at this juncture of our earlier opinion [granting petitioner's writ of habeas corpus] must be limited to the scope of the Supreme Court's remand.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the absence of other error requiring state court proceedings, it [is] appropriate for the district court to hold its own evidentiary hearing.”
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.