Middleton v. Cupp’s Empirical Analysis
768 F.2d 1083 · 1985
Citation profile
110 federal appellate · 6 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably Hughes v. Idaho State Board of Corrections (1986), Smith v. McCormick (1990)
110 federal appellate · 6 district ·
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. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Engle v. Isaac · Reed v. Ross
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is unavailable for alleged error in the interpretation or application of state law.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A writ of habeas corpus is available under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2254(a) only on the basis of some transgression of federal law binding on the state courts. It is unavailable for alleged error in the interpretation or application of state law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wynn v. Bunnel K · Hodgson v. Ylst“The exhaustion requirement as to a particular claim is satisfied once the claim has been fairly presented to the highest court of the state.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Skuse v. Schaible · Johnson v. Gunn
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.