Page v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis
343 F.3d 901 · 2003
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2025 · most notably Cone v. Bell (2009), Lewis v. Sternes (2004)
23 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Anders v. California · Johnson v. Zerbst · Coleman v. Thompson
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] federal court will not review a question of federal law decided by a state court if the decision of the state court rests on as state procedural ground that is independent of the federal question and adequate to support the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Evans“based its disposition of [the petitioner's claim] on its conclusion that the merits of the claim ha[s] been resolved previously,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Canaan v. McBride“a merit-based determination [that] is not a bar to further consideration in a federal habeas action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Canaan v. McBride
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.