Sanders v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
900 F.2d 601 · 1990
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Melvin Tyler v. Burl Cain Warden (2001), United States v. Mandanici (2000)
10 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Teague v. Lane · Brown v. Allen · Palko v. State of Connecticut · Mooney v. Holohan · Lisenba v. People of State of California
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“adhere[ ] 'to [our] own decision at an earlier stage of the litigation' unless there are 'cogent' or 'compelling' reasons not to, such as 'an intervening change of controlling law, the availability of new evidence, or the need to correct a clear error or prevent manifest injustice.'”
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.