Magouirk v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
144 F.3d 348 · 1998
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023 · most notably Day v. McDonough (2006), Alberto Valdez v. Janie Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division - (2001)
34 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
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Townsend v. Sain · Lindh v. Murphy · Granberry v. Greer · Reginald R. Brinkmann, Jr. v. Dallas County Deputy Sheriff Abner
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] federal district court may, in the exercise of its discretion, raise a habeas petitioner's procedural default sua sponte and then apply that default as a bar to further litigation of petitioner's claims.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“state courts are not bound by Fifth Circuit precedent when making a determination of federal law”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no doubt that a federal court may raise sua sponte a petitioner's failure to exhaust state law remedies”
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.