Powers v. White’s Empirical Analysis
680 F.2d 51 · 1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Picard v. Connor · Barrett v. United States · Hubert M. Morris v. D. W. Wyrick, Warden · James J. Connor v. Philip J. Picard
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a state violated its own statutes is a question of state law for determination by state courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flenoy v. Russell
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.