Gutierrez v. Griggs’s Empirical Analysis
695 F.2d 1195 · 1983
Citation profile
48 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Lincoln v. Sunn (1987), Turner v. Marshall (1995)
48 federal appellate · 9 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 Fay v. Noia · Rose v. Lundy · Engle v. Isaac · Walker v. Johnston · United States v. Reliable Transfer Co.
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“explicitly allows a district court to dismiss summarily the petition on the merits when no claim for relief is stated.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]f it plainly appears from the face of the petition and any exhibits annexed to it that the petitioner is not entitled to relief in the district court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Geter v. Ryan K“When a state prisoner has failed to allege a deprivation of a federal right, Sec. 2254 does not apply.”
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.