Dickerson v. Walsh’s Empirical Analysis
750 F.2d 150 · 1984
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Samarzia v. Clark County (1989), Trevino v. Johnson (1999)
24 federal appellate · 6 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Rose v. Lundy · Baxter v. Palmigiano
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“refused to consider attacks on post-conviction proceedings by 10 habeas petitions on the ground that errors or defects in a state post-conviction proceeding do not ipso facto render a detention unlawful.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“administer[ed] its laws in an unconstitutional fashion.”
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.