In Re James Davenport and Sherman Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 16 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably In Re: Byron Jones, A/K/A Carl Lee, A/K/A B, Movant (2000), No. 96-2355 (1999)
1 federal appellate · 16 district · 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 Teague v. Lane · Bailey v. United States · Sanders v. United States · Bousley v. United States · McCleskey v. Zant
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An applicant for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a prisoner who is authorized to apply for relief under this section, shall not be entertained if it appears that the applicant has failed to apply for relief, by motion, to the court which sentenced him, or that such court has denied him relief unless it also appears that the remedy by motion is inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of his detention.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] procedure for postconviction relief can fairly be termed inadequate when it is so configured as to deny a convicted defendant any opportunity for judicial rectification of so fundamental a defect in his conviction as having been imprisoned for a nonexistent offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'a prisoner a reasonable opportunity to obtain a reliable judicial determination of the fundamental legality of his conviction and sentence.'”
3 later decisions 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.