Granberry v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
908 federal appellate · 58 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,585 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2024 · most notably Harris v. Reed (1989), Castille v. Peoples (1989)
908 federal appellate · 58 district · 16 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedGranberry v. Mizell (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Rose v. Lundy · Frisbie v. Collins
Cited together with Rose v. Lundy · Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Picard v. Connor · Murray v. Carrier
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 1,585 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if it is perfectly clear that the applicant does not raise even a colorable federal claim.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the State answers a habeas corpus petition, it has a duty to advise the district court whether the prisoner has, in fact, exhausted all available state remedies.”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hesler v. Parke · Russell v. Rolfs“[Tjhere are some cases in which it is appropriate for an appellate court to address the merits of a habeas corpus petition notwithstanding the lack of complete exhaustion. Although there is a strong presumption in favor of requiring the prisoner to pursue his available state remedies, his failure to do so is not an absolute bar to appellate consideration of his claims.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Prather v. Rees · Harrison v. Dahm
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.