Kramer v. Kemna’s Empirical Analysis
21 F.3d 305 · 1994
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Tiedeman v. Benson (1997), United States v. Dixon (1995)
16 federal appellate · 4 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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Barefoot v. Estelle · Kenley v. Armontrout · Flieger v. Delo · Thompson v. United Artists Theatre Circuit, Inc.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Failure to give the district court a first opportunity to decid[e] the merits of an argument constitutes a waiver of that argument.”
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.