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37 F.3d 504 · 1994

Citation profile

173
cited by 173 later decisions
3
states following
March 2021
most recently cited

70 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 173 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Davis v. Woodford (2003), LaGrand v. Stewart (1998)

70 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions

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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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Solem v. Helm · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Harmelin v. Michigan · Lisenba v. People of 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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “A Traverse is not the proper pleading to raise additional grounds for relief.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[h]abeas claims that are not raised before the district court in the petition are not cognizable on appeal,”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “(1) that counsel's performance fell below an objective standard of reasonableness; and (2) that, but for counsel's errors, the result would have been different.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage

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.