Ashker v. Leapley’s Empirical Analysis
5 F.3d 1178 · 1993
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Abdullah v. Groose (1996), Victor v. Hopkins (1996)
12 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 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 Rose v. Lundy · Picard v. Connor · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Texas v. Louisiana · Federal Election Commission v. Machinists Non-Partisan Political League
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“refer to a specific federal constitutional right, a particular constitutional provision, a federal constitutional case, or a state case raising a pertinent federal constitutional issue.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A claim is considered exhausted when the petitioner has afforded the highest state court a fair opportunity to rule on the factual and theoretical substance of his claim.”
2 later decisions 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.