Featherstone v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
948 F.2d 1497 · 1991
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably Bean v. Calderon (1998), Turner v. Calderon (2002)
40 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Stovall v. Denno · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he propriety of a consolidation rests within the sound discretion of the state trial judge. The simultaneous trial of more than one offense must actually render petitioner's state trial fundamentally unfair and hence, violative of due process before relief ... would be appropriate.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“More specifically, we must consider on a count by count basis whether the trial on a particular count was fundamentally unfair in light of that count's joinder with one or more other charges.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“two or more different offenses of the same class of crimes or offenses.”
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.