Chavez v. Sigler’s Empirical Analysis
438 F.2d 890 · 1971
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1996
7 federal appellate · 1 district · 12 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Lane v. Brown · Roberts v. LaVallee · Smith v. Bennett · Long v. District Court of Iowa, Lee Cty. · Case v. State of Nebraska
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere fact of indigency does not demonstrate entitlement to free transcripts upon request for the purpose of searching the record at random in an attempt to find possible grounds to assert a claim for postconviction relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Washington v. State“[the] mere request for a transcript from the state court, without more, does not constitute an exhaustion of his remedies as required by 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2254.”
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.