Davis v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
829 F.2d 1513 · 1987
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2022
7 federal appellate · 1 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 Strickland v. Washington · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Rose v. Lundy · Sanders v. United States · Barefoot v. Estelle
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Successive Petitions. A second or successive petition may be dismissed if the judge finds that it fails to allege new or different grounds for relief and the prior determination was on the merits or, if new and different grounds are alleged, the judge finds that the failure of the petitioner to assert those grounds in a prior petition constituted an abuse of the writ.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gunn v. Newsome“Accordingly, none of our prior decisions upholding [Habeas] Rule 9(a) [laches] dismissals have involved delays of less than fifteen years between sentencing and the filing of the federal habeas petition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“only that the fact that a scheduled execution is imminent does not itself create a basis for dismissing the petition as an abuse of the writ.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lonchar v. Thomas
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.