Roberts v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis
29 F.3d 1474 · 1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2014
3 federal appellate · 7 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Harris v. Reed · McCleskey v. Zant
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although we find the Ritchie claim to be procedurally defaulted, our review of the record persuades us that even if we addressed the issue on the merits, Roberts would be entitled to no relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a proper showing of actual innocence,” Id., and would have to show by “clear and convincing evidence” that, but for the alleged error,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mayes v. State
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.