Batten v. Scurr’s Empirical Analysis
649 F.2d 564 · 1981
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2001 · most notably McGee v. Wj Estelle (1984), Wallace v. Al Lockhart (1983)
17 federal appellate · 1 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Sumner v. Mata · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Federal Communications Commission v. Home Box Office, Inc.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“while this circuit has never expressly held that [the conduct of the state in not raising the issue of exhaustion] is sufficient for a waiver, ... it is strong indication that the state believes that its interests have been vindicated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cured by striking the testimony and instructing the jury to disregard the remark.”
2 later decisions 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.