Sterling v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
57 F.3d 451 · 1995
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Calderon v. United States District Court (1997), Hill v. Johnson (2000)
22 federal appellate · 3 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 21 U.S.C. § 848 (§ 408 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Rose v. Lundy · Barefoot v. Estelle · Murray v. Giarratano · McFarland v. Scott
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“every subsequent stage of available judicial proceedings,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An application for writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court shall not be granted unless it appears that— (A) the applicant has exhausted the remedies available in the courts of the State; or (B)(i) there is an absence of available State corrective process; or (ii) circumstances exist that render such process ineffective to protect the rights of the applicant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e cannot agree that ... subsection 848(q)(8), encompass[es] ... any proceedings convened under the authority of a State.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Newman v. State · King v. Moore
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.