Ex Parte Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2012 · most notably Barrientes v. Johnson (2000), Ex Parte Reed (2008)
3 federal appellate · 16 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. § 2261 (§ 107 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Murray v. Carrier · Harris v. Reed · Grunsfeld v. State · Ex Parte Torres · State Ex Rel. Holmes v. Honorable Court of Appeals for the Third District
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.
“[a]lthough Presiding Judge McCormick's opinion [in Davis] is labeled a concurring opinion, it was joined by a majority of the Court and may be regarded as an opinion for the Court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by law, the Court of Criminal Appeals and the Judges thereof shall have the power to issue the writ of habeas corpus....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Ex Parte Alba · Ex Parte Carrio“the Legislature clearly has intended for Article 11.071 to provide the exclusive means by which this Court may exercise its original habeas corpus jurisdiction in death penalty cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Alba
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.