Felts v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
875 F.2d 785 · 1989
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2016
11 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Illinois v. Allen · Estelle v. Williams · Beto v. Hernandez · Hernandez v. Beto · Tisnado v. United States
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I have on dark blue jump suit. (sic) On the back I have white lettering that says, 'L.A. County Jail.' Approximately ten inches high.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f Felts had clothes available and elected not to wear them at trial, a court may reasonably infer that his decision was predicated upon a conscious attempt to elicit sympathy from the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clark v. M Ratelle“The restraints imposed upon a released prisoner on parole are sufficiently restrictive to satisfy the custody requirement of Sec. 2254.”
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.