Feeney v. Auger’s Empirical Analysis
808 F.2d 1279 · 1986
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · Gerstein v. Pugh · Preiser v. Rodriguez · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Thomas v. Wyrick
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.
“We think the administration of justice would be greatly improved if we were permitted to cut the Gordian knot and dismiss on their merits frivolous or clearly insubstantial habeas petitions, without going through the procedural gyrations of which this opinion is another unfortunate example.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Edman
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.