Bergman v. Burton’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
63 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2009 · most notably Castro v. Viera (1988), Kemp v. Potts (1986)
63 federal appellate · 6 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 Chapman v. State of California · Wainwright v. Sykes · Rose v. Lundy · Sandstrom v. Montana
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under Rose v. Lundy--if I read the Court's opinion correctly--after the case gets back to the District Court, that court must dismiss the habeas corpus petition that is now a part of the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Graham v. Solem“to resubmit a petition with only exhausted claims or to exhaust the remainder of their claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Burns v. Wj Estelle
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.