Dugas v. Coplan’s Empirical Analysis
506 F.3d 1 · 2007
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 21 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Kosilek v. Spencer (2014), United States v. Valerio (2012)
4 federal appellate · 21 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 Strickland v. Washington · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Michael Wayne Williams v. John Taylor Warden · Scarpa v. Dubois
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As [the court of 6 appeals for this circuit has] noted, a federal court /can hardly defer to the state court on an issue that the state court did not address.'’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the state court has never addressed the particular federal claim at issue, federal review is de novo.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“AEDPA's strict standard of review only applies to a claim that was adjudicated on the merits in state court proceedings.”
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.