John Newman v. C. Murray Henderson, Warden, Louisiana State Penitentiary’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.2d 502 · 1976
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2000 · most notably Bromley v. Crisp (1977), Spencer v. Kemp (1986)
13 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Washington v. Davis · Francis v. Henderson · Davis v. United States · Lefkowitz v. Newsome · Perez 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It would seem to follow necessarily that when there is no bypass of state appellate procedures, deliberate or otherwise, and the state courts entertained the federal claims on the merits, a federal habeas corpus court must also determine the merits of the applicant's claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the state does not attack the finding of the district court that there was a systematic exclusion of qualified citizens from the grand jury that indicted Newman.”
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.