Rogers v. McMullen’s Empirical Analysis
673 F.2d 1185 · 1982
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Dyer v. Calderon (1998), O'Bryan v. Wj Estelle (1983)
20 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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Duncan v. State of Louisiana · Smith v. Phillips · Peters v. Kiff
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“federal courts in such proceedings must not disturb the findings of state courts unless the federal habeas court articulate[d] some basis for disarming such findings of the statutory presumption that they are correct ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a state criminal defendant who can demonstrate that a member of the jury which heard his case was biased ... is entitled to federal habeas corpus relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Depree v. Thomas“as binding precedent all of the decisions of the former Fifth Circuit handed down prior to the close of business on September 30, 1981.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Phillips v. Smith
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.