Pignone v. C. Sands’s Empirical Analysis
589 F.2d 76 · 1978
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2017
7 federal appellate · 4 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 Chambers v. Maroney · Stone v. Powell · Lex Tex Ltd. v. Universal Textured Yarns, Inc. · Arthur J. Nathaniel v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections · Commonwealth v. Antobenedetto
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the totality of the state proceedings provided the necessary opportunity to litigate,”
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.