Pillette v. Foltz’s Empirical Analysis
824 F.2d 494 · 1987
Citation profile
52 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Christy v. Horn (1997), Wong v. Money (1998)
52 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 Strickland v. Washington · Bruton v. United States · Rose v. Lundy · Granberry v. Greer · Bradley v. J. F. Batte & Sons of Richmond, Inc.
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of exhaustion requires that the same claim under the same theory be presented to state courts before raising it in a habeas petition.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Boggs v. Brigano · Caver v. Straub“under the notion that state courts should be afforded the first opportunity to address potential constitutional errors in state trials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“limited circumstances under which the failure [to exhaust] will not act as a complete bar to federal habeas review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Christy v. Horn
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.