Mitchell v. Wyrick’s Empirical Analysis
727 F.2d 773 · 1984
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2008 · most notably Samarzia v. Clark County (1989), Reese v. Fulcomer (1991)
23 federal appellate · 1 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 Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Federal Maritime Commission · Nathaniel Williams v. State of Missouri · State v. Mitchell · Noble v. Sigler
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.
“only on the ground that he is in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Even where there may be some error in state post-conviction proceedings, this would not entitle appellant to federal habeas corpus relief since appellant’s claim here represents an attack on a proceeding collateral to detention of appellant and not on the detention itself____””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the sixth amendment right to effective assistance of counsel does not attach.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Krebs v. Weber
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.