Long v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
663 F.2d 18 · 1981
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably Nguyen v. Reynolds B (1997), Gall v. Parker (2000)
27 federal appellate · 2 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Wainwright v. Sykes · Henderson v. Kibbe · Francis v. Henderson · Beasley v. United States
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless they are so fundamentally unfair as to deprive petitioner of a fair trial and to due process of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In a habeas corpus proceeding, it is not the province of a federal appellate court to review the decision of the state's highest court on purely state law. Federalism requires that we accept the state Supreme Court's decision on state law as being correct as state courts must respect the decisions of federal courts on federal law.”
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.