Grimsley v. Dodson’s Empirical Analysis
696 F.2d 303 · 1982
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2016
6 federal appellate · 5 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 Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics · Mapp v. Ohio · Gagnon v. Scarpelli · Brown v. Illinois · Stone v. Powell
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“need not inquire further into the merits of petitioner's case ... unless the prisoner alleges something to indicate that his opportunity for a full and fair litigation of his Fourth Amendment claim or claims was in some way impaired.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“opportunity for full and fair litigation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Turentine v. Miller
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.