Sampson v. Love’s Empirical Analysis
782 F.2d 53 · 1986
Citation profile
28 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably James Howard Turner v. State of Tennessee (1988), Demarest v. Price (1997)
28 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)
Relies on Rose v. Lundy · Picard v. Connor · Anderson v. Harless · Bowsher v. SmithKline Corp. · Saia 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the state's [post-conviction] process is open to interpretation with respect to the availability of relief via that process, the state should be given an opportunity to adopt that interpretation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tolbert v. Tate · Burgin v. Broglin“The state courts must be provided with a 'fair opportunity' to apply controlling legal principles to the facts bearing upon the petitioner's constitutional claim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is not enough that all the facts necessary to support the federal claim were before the state court, ... or that a somewhat similar state-law claim was made . " Id. (citation omitted). The purpose of the exhaustion requirement is "to protect the state court's role in the enforcement of federal law and prevent disruption of state judicial proceedings.”
2 later decisions 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.