Jenkins v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
157 F.3d 485 · 1998
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably United States v. Jackson (2000), Kathleen Braun v. Barbara Powell (2000)
22 federal appellate ·
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 Strickland v. Washington · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Kotteakos v. United States · Wainwright v. Sykes · Brecht v. Abrahamson
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a state court does not reach a federal issue because of a state procedural bar, that issue cannot be raised in a writ of habeas corpus to a federal court without a showing of cause and prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“had substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury's verdict”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Litscher“clearly and expressly state[d] that its judgment rests on a state procedural bar,”
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.