United States ex rel. Master v. Baldi’s Empirical Analysis
198 F.2d 113 · 1952
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2005 · most notably Brown v. Allen (1953), United States ex rel. Darcy v. Handy (1953)
24 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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. § 2249 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Lisenba v. People of State of California · Frisbie v. Collins · Haley v. Ohio · Chambers v. Florida
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We reiterate that it is a highly uncomfortable position for judges of the district courts and courts of appeals, in effect, to review decisions of the highest court of a state. Nonetheless * * * although the decision of the state court is to be accorded great weight by a district court, the latter is obliged to pass upon the merits of the petition.””
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.