Carbray v. Champion’s Empirical Analysis
905 F.2d 314 · 1990
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2015
13 federal appellate · 1 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 · Pelaes v. United States · Clemons v. Mississippi · Lawrence v. United States · Hicks v. Oklahoma
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“justice dictates our modification of the defendant's sentence from a term of one hundred ninety-nine (199) years' imprisonment to a term of seventy-five years' imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Cowley“liberty interest [created by the state] is one that the Fourteenth Amendment preserves against arbitrary deprivation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hatch v. Oklahoma
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.