Baldwin v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
442 F.2d 29 · 1971
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably Jack Messelt v. State of Alabama (1979), 193 Wis. 2d 299 - Reginald D. v. State (1995)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 2283
Relies on Gault · Fay v. Noia · Frisbie v. Collins · Atlantic Coast Line Railroad v. Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers · Royall
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be exercised in the light of the relations existing, under our system of government, between the judicial tribunals of the Union and of the States, and in recognition of the fact that the public good requires that those relations be not disturbed by unnecessary conflict between courts equally bound to guard and protect rights secured by the Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court”
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.