Gray v. Greer’s Empirical Analysis
707 F.2d 965 · 1983
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably Verdin v. O'Leary (1992), Falconer v. Lane (1990)
14 federal appellate ·
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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Wainwright v. Sykes · Rose v. Lundy · Picard v. Connor · 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] petitioner need not pursue a petition for post-conviction relief in order to exhaust a constitutional claim where there is no direct precedent indicating that the Illinois courts will relax the waiver rule. When there is no such direct precedent, this court finds that there is “the existence of circumstances rendering such process ineffective to protect the rights of the prisoner.” 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (b).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is either an absence of available State corrective process or the existence of circumstances rendering such process ineffective to protect the rights of the prisoner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“direct precedent indicating that under the particular circumstances of a prisoner's case the ... doctrine[s] will be relaxed.”
2 later decisions 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.