McGee v. Wj Estelle’s Empirical Analysis
722 F.2d 1206 · 1984
Citation profile
69 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2014 · most notably Granberry v. Greer (1987), United States of America v. Rosalinda Miranda Abel Espinoza Rigoberto Rodriguez Oscar Rodriguez Hector Espinoza (2001)
69 federal appellate · 2 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 Johnson v. Zerbst · Younger v. Harris · Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · Rose v. Lundy
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e have repeatedly refused to examine issues not raised in the appellate briefs absent the possibility of injustice so grave as to warrant disregard of the usual procedural rules,”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“'as chief legal officer of the state, the attorney general is the appropriate person to assert, or to waive, the state's right first to determine [a habeas corpus claim].'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“federalism, expense to litigants and the conservation of judicial resources are all served by honoring the waiver and deciding the case on the merits.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.