Smith v. Chrans’s Empirical Analysis
836 F.2d 1076 · 1988
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1251 · 28 U.S.C. § 1257 · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Barefoot v. Estelle · Van Pilon v. Reed · United States ex rel. Hickey v. Jeffes · Vicaretti v. Henderson · Barber v. Scully
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.
“Because we construe a habeas petitioner’s notice of appeal as an application for a certificate of probable cause, those petitioners who are issued limited certificates will nevertheless obtain further consideration of the entire petition by this court. It appears likely that petitioners will also continue to argue the merits of excluded claims in the appeal for which a certificate was granted in the hopes of having those claims considered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Sherman v. Scott
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.