Vansickel v. White’s Empirical Analysis
166 F.3d 953 · 1999
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably White v. VanSickel (1999), Davis v. Woodford (2003)
9 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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Kotteakos v. United States · Penson v. Ohio · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] procedural default does not bar consideration of a federal claim on either direct or habeas review unless the last state court rendering a judgment in the case `clearly and expressly' states that its judgment rests on a state procedural bar.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a state prisoner has defaulted his federal claim in state court pursuant to an adequate and independent state procedural rule,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“state right to peremptory challenges [afforded by Code of Civil Procedure section 231] is a state-created liberty interest protected by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.”
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.