Hadley v. Werner’s Empirical Analysis
753 F.2d 514 · 1985
Citation profile
110 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably McCune v. City of Grand Rapids (1988), Young v. Kenny (1989)
110 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) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Younger v. Harris · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Samuels v. J Mackell Fernandez · Tower v. Glover · Thomas A. Guerro v. Roger F. Mulhearn, Ralph F. Andrews v. Kathy Decote Young
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“implying that a state conviction is or would be illegal.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if and when [a prisoner] establishes, through a petition for writ of habeas corpus, that he was denied effective assistance of counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We therefore have no occasion to decide if a Federal District Court should abstain from deciding a § 1983 suit for damages stemming from an unlawful conviction pending the collateral exhaustion of state-court attacks on the conviction itself.”
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.