Gamble v. Parsons’s Empirical Analysis
898 F.2d 117 · 1990
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Hardiman v. Reynolds (1992), Collins v. Hesse (1992)
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Barefoot v. Estelle · Maleng v. Cook · Taylor v. Armontrout · Clark v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the defendant may argue that his present sentence is improper because it has been enhanced by a prior, unconstitutional conviction.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“as asserting a challenge to his present sentence to the extent that it has been enhanced by the allegedly invalid prior conviction[s].”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“made clear that his current sentence had been enhanced by the expired conviction he sought to challenge.”
2 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.