Simmons v. Blodgett’s Empirical Analysis
110 F.3d 39 · 1997
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2016
10 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on O'NEAL v. McAninch · Granberry v. Greer · 116 S. Ct. 712 - Neben & Starrett, Inc. v. Chartwell Financial Corp. · Bonin v. Calderon · Lovell v. Poway Unified School 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While we might otherwise be concerned that it is contrary to the interests of comity for a federal court to act on habeas review while an appeal is pending in the state court system, in this case the State has not raised the point.... Because exhaustion is not jurisdictional, we have no sua sponte obligation to pursue the problem further.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Valerio v. Crawford“Finding facts to determine if there is a constitutional error is a wholly different thing from deciding whether or not an error, once found, affected the verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mancuso v. Olivarez“[b]ecause exhaustion is not jurisdictional, we have no sua sponte obligation to [resolve the exhaustion question]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Menendez v. Terhune
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.