Watson v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
859 F.2d 105 · 1988
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Weaver v. Graham · Dobbert v. Florida · Miller v. Florida · Scharffe v. Perkins
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a repealer of parole eligibility previously available to imprisoned offenders would clearly present a serious question under the ex post facto clause....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Akins v. Snow“must be retrospective, that is, it must apply to events occurring before its enactment, and it must disadvantage the offender affected by it.”
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.