Whalen v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
February 1987
most recently cited
2 federal appellate ·
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Most-quoted passages
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“[I] believe that, particularly in light of 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (a), petitioner will be collaterally estopped from raising in California the grounds he raised in the petition which we now dismiss. The determination of that issue, however, is for the court in California____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Lumpkin
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