Edwards v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
720 F.2d 751 · 1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2006
6 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Sykes · County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen · Kentucky v. Indiana · Texas v. Certain Named & Unnamed Undocumented Alien Children
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“What concerns me about the majority’s inference from state court silent affirmance in this case is the prospect that in some future case where a procedural default is arguable, but not clear, the Appellate Division will silently affirm after deciding that there was neither procedural default nor a valid claim on the merits, and we will then affirm the denial of habeas corpus relief because we mistakenly presume state court reliance on procedural default even though we think a constitutional error affecting substantial rights has occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“express [his] respectful disagreement with what [he] believe[s] is an ill-advised application of the forfeiture rule of Wainwright v. Sykes, 433 U.S. 72 [97 S.Ct. 2497, 53 L.Ed.2d 594] (1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[s]ince the Appellate Division affirmed without opinion, under Martinez Edwards's claims are barred from federal habeas corpus review by an adequate and independent state ground....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.