Fields v. Calderon’s Empirical Analysis
125 F.3d 757 · 1997
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Willie Lee Miles v. Kw Prunty Attorney General of the State of California (1999), Barrientes v. Johnson (2000)
39 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. § 1292
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · Soberon v. United States · Needler v. Valley National Bank of Arizona · Johnson v. Mississippi
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“will not review a question of federal law decided by a state court if the decision of that court rests on a state law ground that is independent of the federal question and adequate to support the judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to constitute adequate and independent grounds sufficient to support a finding of procedural default, a state rule must be clear, consistently applied, and well-established at the time of petitioner's purported default.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the proper point in time for determining whether a procedural rule was firmly established and regularly followed is 'the time of [the] purported procedural default.'”
2 later decisions 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.