Ahlswede v. Wolff’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 1108 · 1983
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Bottoson v. Florida (1984), United States v. Chavez-Vernaza (1987)
33 federal appellate · 1 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 Stone v. Powell · Rose v. Lundy · Engle v. Isaac · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
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.
“the only issues properly before this court are those in the petition”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although the 'total exhaustion' rule requires a district court to dismiss a habeas petition containing both exhausted and unexhausted claims, that rule does not apply to claims not presented in the petition.... [T]he only issues properly before this court are those in the petition.”
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.