Holcomb v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
701 F.2d 1307 · 1983
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Osborn v. Shillinger (1988), Hughes v. Idaho State Board of Corrections (1986)
17 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
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · United States v. Frady · Rose v. Lundy · Engle v. Isaac
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The Supreme Court] has not overruled Fay, and until it does we shall apply the rule of that case at least to situations in which no state appeal has been taken.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the federal habeas judge may in his discretion deny relief to an applicant who has deliberately by-passed the orderly procedure of the state courts and in so doing has forfeited his state court remedies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilbert v. Scott“error renders the trial so fundamentally unfair as to deprive the petitioner of federal constitutional rights”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Champion
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.