Smartt v. Avery’s Empirical Analysis
411 F.2d 408 · 1969
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 1985 · most notably Sostre v. McGinnis (1971), Hamlin v. Warren (1981)
14 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 Mempa v. Rhay · Johnson v. Walker · Roy Lee Smartt v. C. Murray Henderson, Warden, Tennessee 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Civil Rights Statute cannot be used by a state prisoner to circumvent the requirement of the statute providing that habeas corpus shall not be granted unless it appears that the applicant has exhausted the remedies available in the courts of the state.”
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.