Walker v. Engle’s Empirical Analysis
703 F.2d 959 · 1983
Citation profile
104 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 188 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably State v. Madrigal (2000), United States v. Rivera (1990)
104 federal appellate · 8 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Sykes · Rochin v. People of California · Engle v. Isaac · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen
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 188 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]rrors that might not be so prejudicial as to amount to a deprivation of due process when considered alone, may cumulatively produce a trial setting that is fundamentally unfair.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Errors of application of state law, especially with regard to the admissibility of evidence, are usually not cognizable in federal habeas corpus actions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. Rees · Sparks v. Foltz“[The cause and prejudice test] should not be applied to preclude federal courts from hearing federal constitutional claims when to do so does no disrespect to the state courts and their procedural rules. [T]he Sykes rule does not apply when it is not clear that the state appellate court had applied a procedural bar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thacker v. Rees
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.