Escobar v. O'Leary’s Empirical Analysis
943 F.2d 711 · 1991
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably 174 Ill. 2d 268 - Hanrahan v. Williams (1996), United States v. Palmer (1997)
15 federal appellate · 5 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 Benton v. Maryland · Carnegie v. United States · United States v. Jorn · Arizona v. Washington · Oregon v. Kennedy
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Violations of state evidentiary rules 'may not be questioned in federal habeas proceedings unless they render the trial so fundamentally unfair as to constitute a denial of federal constitutional rights.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Dean v. Clark“[a] defendant can forfeit double jeopardy rights without making a knowing, voluntary, and intelligent waiver of those rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.