Duncan v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
445 federal appellate · 243 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,470 later decisions (5 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Purkett v. Elem (1995), Baldwin v. Reese (2004)
445 federal appellate · 243 district · 25 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Picard v. Connor · 46 Cal. 2d 818 - People v. Watson · Anderson v. Harless · Henry v. Estelle
Cited together with Coleman v. Thompson · Strickland v. Washington · Picard v. Connor · Williams v. Taylor · 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 1,470 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If state courts are to be given the opportunity to correct alleged violations of prisoners' federal rights, they must surely be alerted to the fact that the prisoners are asserting claims under the United States Constitution.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]xhaustion of state remedies requires that petitioners fairly present federal claims to the state courts in order to give the State the opportunity to pass upon and correct alleged violations of its prisoners' federal rights.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“mere similarity of claims is insufficient to exhaust.”
13 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.