Every v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
781 F.2d 1138 · 1986
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2019
10 federal appellate ·
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. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Hicks v. Oklahoma · Young v. United States · Leppo v. United States · Atkins 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“retain[ed] the ... full authority to reject a state's erroneous confession of error and to decide the case in accord with the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wharton v. Vaughn“[t]he state's confession of error, if incorrect, d[id] not bind [the court].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wharton v. Vaughn“concede[d] that [the petitioner] should receive another evidentiary hearing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wharton v. Vaughn
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.