Anderson v. Maggio’s Empirical Analysis
555 F.2d 447 · 1977
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently September 2001 · most notably Spinkellink v. Wainwright (1978), Baumann v. United States (1982)
45 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Simmons v. United States · Neil v. Biggers · Townsend v. Sain · Gilbert v. California · Eisenstadt v. Baker
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“material in the sense of a crucial, critical, highly significant factor.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[n]ewly discovered evidence in the form of a confession by another does not render the conviction void and subject to collateral attack by habeas corpus because it goes to the merits of the conviction, not its legality.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“To grant such relief, we must find that petitioners' conviction and resulting confinement is unconstitutional . . . Unless the record indicates a total lack of evidence, the petitioner's claim of innocence is not to be evaluated in a review of his petition.”
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.