Davis v. Blackburn’s Empirical Analysis
803 F.2d 1371 · 1986
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2022
15 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 Warth v. Seldin · Singleton v. Wulff · Griswold v. State of Connecticut · Stone v. Powell · Kimmelman v. Morrison
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we are obliged to apply Stone as a prudential limitation on the exercise of our jurisdiction here, even if it must be raised sua sponte.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Woolery v. Arave“a federal court is not foreclosed from sua sponte applying the principles of Stone ” noting that Stone is a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Young v. Conway
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.