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Stewart’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

2 district · 17 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2018

2 district · 17 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Morey v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Stewart · Commonwealth v. Stewart · Nelson v. Commissioner of Correction · Averett

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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “grounds distinct from the issues at the indictment, trial, conviction, or sentencing stage.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the term of a lawfully imposed sentence has expired,”
    1 later decision 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.