Howard v. Craven’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1993
2 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Idaho Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Wirtz · Viscardi v. United States · Sobell v. Attorney General · Florida-Georgia Television Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Wallace Leroy Schiers v. The People of the State of California
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a habeas corpus proceeding, a Federal Court will examine a state court’s interpretation of its law or constitution only when it is clearly shown that such State judicial interpretations violate fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.”
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.