Oxborrow v. Eikenberry’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 1395 · 1989
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Sanders v. Ratelle (1994), United States v. Ayers (1991)
53 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · Townsend v. Burke · Bouie v. City of Columbia · Marshall v. Lonberger · Winters v. People of State of New York
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“untenable or amounts to a subterfuge to avoid federal review of a constitutional violation.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an ex post facto broadening of the sentencing statute”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If a judicial construction of a criminal statute is unexpected and indefensible by reference to the law which had been expressed prior to the conduct at issue, it must not be given retroactive effect.”
3 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.