Smith v. Angelone’s Empirical Analysis
111 F.3d 1126 · 1997
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Jimmy Walker v. J.T. O'brien, and Joseph W. Finfrock v. Craig A. Hanks (2000), Blair-Bey v. Quick (1998)
31 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1914 · 28 U.S.C. § 1915 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2412
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Foman v. Davis · Coleman v. Thompson · Heck v. Humphrey
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`more accurately regarded as being sui generis '”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“long tradition of ready access of prisoners.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This chronology strongly suggests that Congress intended to make its changes to habeas proceedings via the AEDPA, and to alter procedure in prisoner civil rights litigation in the PLRA.”
1 later decision 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.