Steward v. Gilmore’s Empirical Analysis
80 F.3d 1205 · 1996
Citation profile
20 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Edward Howard v. William D. O'sullivan, Warden (1999), Wilson v. Briley (2001)
20 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
Relies on Anders v. California · Wainwright v. Sykes · Pennsylvania v. Finley · Sawyer v. Whitley · Castille v. Peoples
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Federal habeas relief is available only when a petitioner has given the state courts a full and fair opportunity to review a claim, when there is cause and prejudice for the failure to raise the claim in state court or when the default would lead to a 'fundamental miscarriage of justice.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fundamental miscarriage of justice exception requires a claim that the defendant be actually innocent of the crime for which he or she is imprisoned.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A claim has been fairly presented to a state court if a petitioner “has clearly informed the state court of the factual basis of that claim and has argued to the state court that those facts constituted a violation of the petitioner’s constitutional rights.””
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.