Baker v. Metcalfe’s Empirical Analysis
633 F.2d 1198 · 1981
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Washington v. Watkins (1981), Proffitt v. Wainwright (1982)
41 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. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Giglio v. United States · Santobello v. New York · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Benton v. Maryland
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ince violation of the double jeopardy clause is a question of law, United States v. Nickerson, 211 F.2d 909 , 912 (7th Cir.1954), we are not bound by the clearly erroneous standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Freer v. Dugger
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.