Moran v. Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
607 F.2d 1140 · 1979
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently October 2012 · most notably Walker v. Engle (1983), McGee v. Wj Estelle (1984)
19 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Gideon v. Wainwright · Wainwright v. Sykes · United States v. Tucker · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“federal constitutional claim is barred by some state procedural rule, a federal court implies no disrespect for the State by entertaining the claim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At the very least, it would strain logic to assume that an affirmance without written opinion was meant to dispose of the case on the basis of an argument never offered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The line of cases culminating in the Wainwright decision require us to enforce a state's valid contemporaneous objection rule absent a showing of 'cause' and 'prejudice.'”
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.