Sinclair v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
599 F.2d 673 · 1979
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Carter v. Estelle (1982), Escobedo v. Estelle (1981)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · Sanders v. United States · Carafas v. J · Peyton v. Rowe · Tobacco Institute, Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'in custody' does not necessarily mean 'in custody for the offense being attacked.' Instead, jurisdiction exists if there is a positive, demonstrable relationship between the prior conviction and the petitioner's present incarceration.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the 'substantial issue' in such cases is not mootness but whether (the habeas petitioner) has satisfied the 'in custody' requirement necessary to establish federal habeas corpus jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Escobedo v. Estelle“the prior determination was on the merits and the ends of justice would not be served by reaching the merits of the subsequent application.”
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.