Earl William Harris v. Lou v. Brewer, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
434 F.2d 166 · 1970
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 1990 · most notably Collins v. Auger (1978), Frazier v. Roberts (1971)
23 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
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 Fay v. Noia · Chambers v. Maroney · Sanders v. United States · Roberts v. LaVallee · Monks v. New Jersey
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Controlling weight may be given to denial of a prior application for federal habeas corpus or § 2255 relief only if (1) the same ground presented in the subsequent application was determined adversely to the applicant on the prior application, (2) the prior determination was on the merits, and (3) the ends of justice would not be served by reaching the merits of the subsequent application.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It has been settled law since Fay v. Noia, * * * that a state prisoner who may have procedurally forfeited his right in the state courts to raise federal constitutional claims does not similarly forfeit his right in federal court, unless he has deliberately and knowingly waived the same. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Wolff
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.