Oldham v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Thompson v. State (1999), Mallett v. State (2001)
3 federal appellate · 82 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 Rose v. State · Ex Parte Duffy · Keeton v. State · Woods v. State · Drew v. State
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 2(b) is in essence an escape valve to be used by an appellate court when a case becomes unduly stalled or delayed in the appellate process due to procedural rules, and the interests of justice compel speeding up the process....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In re of J.N.L. · Scott v. State“[did] not rebut the presumption that the appellant was represented by counsel and that counsel acted effectively.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Reyes v. State · Smith v. State“Our holding on this issue is strictly limited to the use of Rule 2(b). We should not be understood as restricting court of appeals’ power to abate an appeal and remand a case under authority other than Rule 2(b). When judicial resources can be conserved in the interest of justice, we encourage the courts of appeals to adopt and continue to use methods for resolving issues sooner rather than later, as long as such methods are legally endorsed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Jack v. State · Benson v. State
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.