Ballard v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
937 F.2d 453 · 1991
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2015
18 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
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) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Townsend v. Sain · Hewitt v. Helms · Board of Pardons v. Allen · Hicks v. Oklahoma · Youngberg 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]isapplication[s] of these laws that lead to deprivations of those liberty interests may be reviewed in federal habeas corpus proceedings”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“set[ ] forth a cognizable federal habe-as corpus claim based on the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lambright v. Stewart“[s]tate laws may give rise to liberty interests protected by the Fourteenth Amendment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lambright v. Stewart
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.