Ostrander v. Joynes’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Locke v. Johns-Manville Corp. · Bailey v. Tucker · Carmel v. Lunney · Oleyar v. Kerr, Trustee · Peeler v. Hughes & Luce
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Supreme Court in Adkins could have based its decision solely upon Adkins’ failure to obtain post-conviction relief. It did not do so. It unanimously reversed the Circuit Court’s conclusion that Adkins was not required to allege his [actual] innocence. The Adkins Court emphasized not only legal guilt, but also “actual guilt” is a material consideration of a former criminal defendant’s malpractice claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Desetti v. Chester
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.