Wells v. Maass’s Empirical Analysis
28 F.3d 1005 · 1994
Citation profile
50 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Koerner v. Grigas (2003), Robinson v. Ignacio (2004)
50 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Murray v. Carrier · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · Raphan v. United States
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a state rule must be clear, consistently applied, and well-established at the time of the petitioner's purported default.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a state prisoner has defaulted a claim by violating a state procedural rule which would constitute adequate and independent grounds to bar direct review in the U.S. Supreme Court, he may not raise the claim in federal habeas, absent a showing of cause and prejudice or actual innocence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he procedural default doctrine is a specific application of the general adequate and independent state grounds doctrine.”
3 later decisions 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.