Picard v. Connor’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
2,052 federal appellate · 555 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5,888 later decisions (69 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Stanley v. Illinois (1972), Rose v. Lundy (1982)
2,052 federal appellate · 555 district · 56 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedJames J. Connor v. Philip J. Picard (from First Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Fay v. Noia · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Brown v. Allen
Cited together with Rose v. Lundy · Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · Anderson v. Harless · Strickland v. Washington
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 5,888 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“book and verse on the federal constitution.”
117 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An application for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court shall not be granted unless it appears that the applicant has exhausted the remedies available in the courts of the State, or that there is either an absence of available State corrective process or the existence of circumstances rendering such process ineffective to protect the rights of the prisoner.”
79 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“an accommodation of our federal system designed to give the State the initial 'opportunity to pass upon and correct' alleged violations of its prisoners' federal rights.”
37 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McKaskle v. Vela · Wilks v. Israel
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.