Donnell v. Nash’s Empirical Analysis
323 F.2d 850 · 1963
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 1986 · most notably Case v. State of Nebraska (1965), John Wesley Hunt v. Warden, Maryland Penitentiary, John Nathan Bristow, Jr. v. Vernon L. Pepersack, Warden, Maryland State Penitentiary, James E. Cox v. Vernon L. Pepersack, Warden, Maryland Penitentiary, State of Maryland (1964)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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
Relies on Townsend v. Sain · Fay v. Noia · Mahurin v. Nash
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * as a matter of appropriate federal-state relationship and fitting judicial deference in this special situation, the federal courts ordinarily, before entertaining an application by a state prisoner for federal habeas corpus relief, should require him to again seek consideration and determination of his claims of constitutional violation under the state’s collateral-attack remedy, in order to give the state courts the opportunity to examine and deal with such claims * * [Emphasis supplied by court in Baines, supra.]”
2 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.