Gibson v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
744 F.2d 403 · 1984
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2020
13 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Simmons v. United States · Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co. · Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Ohio State Board of Education v. Reed · Griffin v. United States
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.
“Although a court of appeals will not ordinarily enlarge the record to include material not before the district court, it is clear that the authority to do so exists.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“First, acceptance of the proffered material into the record would establish beyond any doubt the proper resolution of the pending issue. Second, remanding the case to the district court for consideration of the additional material would have been ‘contrary to both the interests of justice and the efficient use of judicial resources. Third, ... the unique powers that federal appellate judges have in the context of habeas actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.