Franklin v. Conway’s Empirical Analysis
546 F.2d 579 · 1976
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2005
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Leary v. United States · Turner v. United States · Barnes v. United States · United States v. Gainey · Hem 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a general rule, state courts should have an opportunity to apply a recent change in constitutional law to a prisoner's case when the change was effectuated by a Supreme Court decision after the state courts have last considered the case.”
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.