Ritter v. Thigpen’s Empirical Analysis
828 F.2d 662 · 1987
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably 577 So. 2d 474 - Kuenzel v. State (1990), Coral v. State (1992)
17 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
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 Kuhlmann v. Wilson · Sloan v. Hicks · Jones v. Howard · Reading Co. v. Schweitzer · Mullins Coal Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Cases in the Eleventh Circuit ... clearly h[o]ld the `overlap' claim does not rise to a constitutional level.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A grant of certiorari does not constitute new law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rutherford v. Crosby“decided case upon which to pass a new law claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rutherford v. Crosby
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.