Nordskog v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
546 F.2d 69 · 1977
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Bower v. State (1989), Reese v. Wainwright (1979)
5 federal appellate · 5 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 Stone v. Powell · Ker v. State of California · Harris v. United States · Burgett v. Texas · 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State
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 is fundamental that federal courts possess only limited authority to consider state evidentiary rulings in a habeas proceeding by a state prisoner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“so prejudicial as to constitute a denial of due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reese v. Wainwright
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.