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← 819 FSUPP2D 574 - Wolfe v. Clarke

Wolfe v. Clarke’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
August 2018
most recently cited

2 federal appellate ·

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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Bell v. Wolfish · Schlup v. Delo · Hilton v. Braunskill · Gross v. Irtz · Marino v. Vasquez

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) [W]hether the stay applicant has made a strong showing that he is likely to succeed on the merits; (2) whether the applicant will be irreparably injured absent a stay; (3) whether issuance of the stay will substantially injure the other parties interested in the proceedings; and (4) where the public interest lies.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “Where the State establishes that it has a strong likelihood of success on appeal, or where, failing that, it can nonetheless demonstrate a substantial case on the merits,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “to retry [the petitioner] before [it] ha[d] clarity from the Fourth Circuit as to its obligations during [such] retrial.”
    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.