Chacon v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
36 F.3d 1459 · 1994
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably People v. Alvarez (1996), Todd Hiivala v. Tana Wood (1999)
68 federal appellate · 10 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1827 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Hill v. Lockhart · Townsend v. Sain · Brady v. United States · Murray v. Carrier · Sibron v. State of New York Peters
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“new factual allegations do not render a claim unexhausted unless they `fundamentally alter the legal claim already considered by the state courts.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“gross mischaracterization of the likely outcome”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] habeas petition challenging the underlying conviction is never moot simply because, subsequent to its filing, the petitioner has been released from custody,”
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.