Manlove v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Zurla v. State (1990), Duncan v. Kerby (1993)
5 federal appellate · 35 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. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Sanders v. United States · Kuhlmann v. Wilson · Olden v. Kentucky · Ricketts v. Adamson
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“simply to review the record for errors of the trial court; rather, habeas corpus inquiry is directed to the fairness of the entire proceeding, and a writ will lie when violations of the petitioner's constitutional rights rendered the judgment void by depriving the court of its jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Forbes“went to the prosecutrix's proclivity for truthfulness and was relevant both to impeach her credibility and as direct evidence in the petitioner's fabrication defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Manlove v. Tansy
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.