Bufalino v. Reno’s Empirical Analysis
613 F.2d 568 · 1980
Citation profile
26 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Mattheson v. King (1985), McGee v. Wj Estelle (1984)
26 federal appellate ·
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 Picard v. Connor · WILWORDING Et Al. v. SWENSON, WARDEN · United States v. Reliable Transfer Co. · Galtieri v. Wainwright · United States v. Arizona
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.
“[T]he exhaustion requirement is an accommodation of the federal system to give the state the initial opportunity to decide (and correct if need be) alleged violations of federal constitutional rights.... The exhaustion rule does not relate to the jurisdiction of the federal court but rather addresses the appropriate exercise of that jurisdiction in light of our unique American system of dual sovereignty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An applicant shall not be deemed to have exhausted the remedies available in the courts of the State ... if he has the right under the law of the State to raise, by any available procedure, the question presented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bailey v. Nagle“codification of a federal jurisdictional policy designed `to effect a proper balance between the roles of state and federal judicial institutions in protecting federal rights.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hunt v. Tucker
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.