Baldwin v. Reese’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
357 federal appellate · 114 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,167 later decisions (25 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Cone v. Bell (2009), Taylor v. Maddox (2004)
357 federal appellate · 114 district · 8 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 · William O'sullivan v. Darren Boerckel · Ohio v. Robinette · Caterpillar Inc. v. Lewis · Duncan v. Henry
Cited together with Williams v. Taylor · Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Duncan v. Henry · Picard v. Connor
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 1,167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the State the opportunity to pass upon and correct alleged violations of its prisoners' federal rights.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A litigant wishing to raise a federal issue can easily indicate the federal law basis for his claim in a state-court petition or brief, for example, by citing in conjunction with the claim the federal source of law on which he relies or a case deciding such a claim on federal grounds, or by simply labeling the claim “federal.””
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[0]rdinarily, a state prisoner does not “fairly present” a claim to a state court if that court must read beyond a petition or a brief (or a similar document) that does not alert it to the presence of a federal claim in order to find material, such as the lower court opinion in the case, that does so.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nara v. Frank · Wood v. Ryan
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.