Maes v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
401 F.2d 200 · 1968
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently October 1985 · most notably Stewart v. Bishop (1968), Dennis Maxwell v. John W. Turner, Warden, Utah State Prison (1969)
37 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
Relies on Townsend v. Sain · Jackson v. Denno · Jesse Lee Brown v. S. H. Crouse, Warden Kansas State Penitentiary · Audie A. Dentis v. The State of Oklahoma, and Ray Page, Warden, State Penitentiary
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Practical impacts of the 1966 amendment were to relieve federal courts of the necessity of relitigating factual issues determinative of federal rights claimed by state prisoners, of trying such an issue de novo, and of further relieving the federal courts from merely reiterating the proper application of federal legal right when the state court has correctly applied the federal law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To the extent that our opinion in Brown v. Crouse might be argumentatively interpreted as requiring an evidentiary hearing in all cases where an issue of fact exists I am authorized to state that the opinion was not intended to so hold.”
1 later decision 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.