Leon Hamilton v. John C. Watkins, Warden’s Empirical Analysis
436 F.2d 1323 · 1970
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2006 · most notably Day v. McDonough (2006), Paprskar v. Estelle (1980)
21 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Fay v. Noia · Swain v. State of Alabama · Strauder v. West Virginia · Norris v. State of Alabama
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'(d)elay alone is no bar to federal habeas relief . . . .'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The accepted classic definition of waiver is ... 'an intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right or privilege.' ") (quoting Johnson v. Zerbst, 304 U.S. 458 , 464, 58 S.Ct. 1019, 1023, 82 L.Ed. 1461 (1938)) (emphasis added). The only question, then, is which party should bear the "cost”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cave v. Singletary“The accepted classic definition of waiver is ... 'an intentional relinquishment or abandonment of a known right or privilege.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cave v. Singletary
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.