Spalding Et Al. v. Aiken’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably United States v. Pepe (1984), United States v. Darby (1984)
41 federal appellate · 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Bruton v. United States · Witherspoon v. Illinois · McMann v. Richardson · United States v. Frady
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“I would allow summary dismissal of habeas petitions when the state can prove that the lapse of time has made reprosecution impossb ble. Exceptions should be limited to cases where the petitioner can make a colorable claim of innocence, demonstrate that a significant miscarriage of justice has occurred or show that his claim is based on grounds that, with the exercise of reasonable diligence, could not have been discovered earlier.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Relief on claims presented many years after conviction should be limited to cases in which the petitioner can demonstrate a miscarriage of justice or a color-able claim of innocence.... The privileges of the writ of habeas corpus are not unlimited. Rather, the doctrine of laches should apply to habeas actions as it applies to other actions for relief. . . . Claims presented by way of habeas corpus petitions many years after conviction impose especially heavy burdens, on the prison system, on society, and on the administration of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Carson v. Burke“that we have no confidence that the laws are administered justly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Fry v. Lopez
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.