Marvin Farmer v. E. B. Caldwell, Warden, Georgia State Prison, Reidsville, Georgia’s Empirical Analysis
476 F.2d 22 · 1973
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably Mason v. Balcom (1976), Linroy Davis v. Louis B. Heyd, Sheriff (1973)
19 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · North Carolina v. Alford · Townsend v. Sain · Brady v. United States
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If there is . . .merit as to the adequacy of the state habeas proceedings an evidentiary hearing was required of the federal habeas court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“by convincing evidence that the factual determination[s] by the State court [were] erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the state court proceedings were full and fair”
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.