Gagne v. Fair’s Empirical Analysis
835 F.2d 6 · 1987
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 38 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Scarpa v. Dubois (1994), Verdin v. O'Leary (1992)
24 federal appellate · 38 district ·
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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Rose v. Lundy · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Picard v. Connor · Lisenba v. People of State of California
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) citing a specific provision of the Constitution; 2) presenting the substance of a federal constitutional claim in such a manner that it likely alerted the state court to the claim’s federal nature; 3) reliance on federal constitutional precedents; and 4) claiming a particular right specifically guaranteed by the Constitution.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fairly presented the substance of his federal habeas claim to the state court before seeking federal review.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is an absence of available State corrective process”
3 later decisions 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.