Darden v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
825 F.2d 287 · 1987
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Bonner v. City of Prichard · Wainwright v. Witt · Darden v. Wainwright · Sanders v. United States · McCleskey v. Kemp
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The record shows that the issue presented in this third petition was specifically withdrawn from the district court’s consideration as being not well founded. The issue was abandoned. Intentional abandonment of a claim is precisely the context that application of the concept of abuse of the writ is intended to address. Witt, 755 F.2d at 1397 . Petitioner may be deemed to have waived his right to a hearing on a successive application for federal habeas relief when he deliberately abandons one of his grounds at the first hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McCleskey v. Zant
How this case has been treated — in progress
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