Beard v. Kindler’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
85 federal appellate · 11 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 202 later decisions (20 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2023 · most notably 132 S. Ct. 1309 - Martinez v. Ryan (2012), Martinez v. Ryan (2012)
85 federal appellate · 11 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedKindler v. Horn (from Third Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Michigan v. Long · National Association for Advancement of Colored People v. State of Alabama Patterson · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co.
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 202 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a discretionary state procedural rule can serve as an adequate ground to bar federal habeas review.” 558 U.S. 53 , 130 S.Ct. 612 , 618, 175 L.Ed.2d 417 (2009). 10 . We have recognized that”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a discretionary rule can be 'firmly established' and 'regularly followed'-even if the appropriate exercise of discretion may permit consideration of a federal claim in some cases but not others.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a state law ground that is independent of the federal question and adequate to support the judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Busby v. Davis · Hughes v. Sheahan
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.