Dougan v. Ponte’s Empirical Analysis
727 F.2d 199 · 1984
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 12 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Verdin v. O'Leary (1992), Nadworny v. Fair (1989)
23 federal appellate · 12 district · 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 Berger v. United States · Rose v. Lundy · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Picard v. Connor · Anderson v. Harless
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.
“(1) citing a specific provision of the Constitution; (2) presenting the 3 substance of a federal constitutional claim in such manner that it likely alerted the state court to the claim's federal nature; (3) reliance on federal constitutional precedents; and (4) claiming a particular right specifically guaranteed by the Constitution.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]ven had one case out of forty in petitioner’s brief alluded to a federal constitutional ground, we would [still find that the constitutional claim was not sufficiently raised]. Where a habeas corpus petitioner’s only basis for contending that he has exhausted state remedies is the citation of state or federal authorities employing constitutional analysis such authorities must play a prominent part in his state court argument.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Petrucelli v. Coombe · Clay v. Vose“raise the red flag of constitutional breach.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Crisp v. Godinez · Nadworny v. Fair
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.