Martin v. Overton’s Empirical Analysis
391 F.3d 710 · 2004
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Davis v. Roberts (2005), Boutwell v. Keating (2005)
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Haines v. Kerner · Castro v. United States · Wells v. Brown · Samantha Sistrunk v. City of Strongsville and Bush-Quayle '92 Committee, Inc. · United States v. Miller
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“petitions recharacterized as § 2254 petitions”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(d) An application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court shall not be granted with respect to any claim that was adjudicated on the merits in State court proceedings unless the adjudication of the claim— (1) resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States; or (2) resulted in a decision that was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“not boundless,” and that “[p]ro se plaintiffs are treated to less stringent standards, but they are not automatically entitled to take every case to trial” (internal quotation omitted)); Leeds v. City of Muldraugh, 174 Fed.Appx. 251, 255 (6th Cir.2006) (although a court must read a pro se complaint liberally, the rules do not require the court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rickmyer v. Browne
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.