O'Blasney v. Solem’s Empirical Analysis
774 F.2d 925 · 1985
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2024
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 753
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Conley v. Gibson · MacHibroda v. United States · Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Herman v. W Claudy · Maes v. Patterson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f it plainly appears from the face of the petition and any exhibits annexed to it that the petitioner is not entitled to relief in the district court, the judge shall make an order for its summary dismissal and cause the petitioner to be notified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knapp v. Henderson“Ordinarily a court should examine the actual transcript, or at least those portions of it cited by counsel, before ruling on a Jackson [v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307 , 99 S.Ct. 2781, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979) ] sufficiency-of-the-evidence claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“If the petition is not frivolous and alleges facts which, even though unlikely, would justify granting the writ, then the petitioner is entitled to have his allegations fairly tested”
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.