Mercadel v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
179 F.3d 271 · 1999
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Sellan v. Kuhlman (2001), David Aparicio v. Christopher Artuz (2001)
38 federal appellate · 3 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 Anders v. California · Coleman v. Thompson · Teague v. Lane · Lindh v. Murphy · Keeney v. Tamayo-Reyes
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) what the state courts have done in similar cases; (2) whether the history of the case suggests that the state court was aware of any ground for not adjudicating the case on the merits; and (3) whether the state courts’ opinions suggest reliance upon procedural grounds rather than a determination on the merits.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A State shall not be deemed to have waived the exhaustion requirement or be estopped from reliance upon the requirement unless the State, through counsel, expressly waives the requirement.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A 1-year period of limitation shall apply to an application for a writ of habeas corpus by a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State Court. The limitation period shall run from the latest of— (A) the date on which the judgment became final by the conclusion of direct review or the expiration of the time for seeking such review....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Cain · Lurie v. Wittner
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.