McCall v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
114 F.3d 754 · 1997
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 11 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2020 · most notably Frey v. Schuetzle (1998), Wemark v. Iowa (2003)
15 federal appellate · 11 district ·
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 Coleman v. Thompson · Schlup v. Delo · Harris v. Reed · Pennsylvania v. Finley · Duncan v. Henry
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a specific federal constitutional right, a particular constitutional provision, a federal constitutional case, or a state case raising a pertinent federal constitutional issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the factual and legal complexity of the case, and the petitioner's ability both to investigate and to articulate his claims without court appointed counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“there is neither a constitutional nor statutory right to counsel in habeas proceedings; instead, it is committed to the discretion of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.