Aiken v. Spalding’s Empirical Analysis
684 F.2d 632 · 1982
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2024
12 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 Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Heflin v. United States · Chandler v. Roudebush · Davis v. Adult Parole Authority · Robert Hawkins v. John E. Bennett, Warden, Iowa State Penitentiary
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A petition may be dismissed if it appears that the state of which the respondent is an officer has been prejudiced in its ability to respond to the petition by delay in its filing unless the petitioner shows that it is based on ground of which he could not have had knowledge by the exercise of reasonable diligence before the circumstances prejudicial to the state occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gibbens v. State
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.