Crotts v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
73 F.3d 861 · 1996
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Tuan Van Tran v. Gary Lindsey Salinas Valley State Prisons (2000), Samson Dubria v. Ga Smith (2000)
19 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Picard v. Connor · Duncan v. Henry · 33 Cal. 3d 21 - People v. Robertson
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If state courts are to be given the opportunity to correct alleged violations of prisoners’ federal rights, they must surely be alerted to the fact that the prisoners are asserting claims under the United States Constitution____ [M]ere similarity of claims is insufficient to exhaust.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Keating v. Hood
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.