Algar Ferguson v. Judge James A. Knight, and David L. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
809 F.2d 1239 · 1987
Citation profile
21 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2006
21 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Doyle v. Ohio · Rose v. Lundy
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An applicant shall not be deemed to have exhausted the remedies available in the courts of the State ... if he has the right under the law of the State to raise, by any available procedure, the question presented.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We cannot be certain of how the Kentucky courts would react to a ... collateral attack unless and until an attack is actually made in the Kentucky courts on [petitioner's] conviction....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A claim cannot be 'exhausted,' strictly speaking, without its substance having been 'fairly presented' to the state court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wilcher v. Jabe
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.