Varnell v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
839 F.2d 1245 · 1988
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently October 2019
10 federal appellate ·
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 Rose v. Lundy · Wallace v. Duckworth · Toney v. Franzen · 132 Wis. 2d 456 - Pettygrove Ex Rel. Scholl v. Pettygrove · Arrowood v. Clusen
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.
“‘A habeas petitioner has “fairly presented” ’ a claim to a state court if he has clearly informed the state court of the factual basis of the claim and has argued to the state court that those facts constituted a violation of the petitioner’s constitutional rights.’”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is either an absence of available State corrective process or the existence of circumstances rendering such process ineffective to protect the rights of the prisoner.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“petitioner must establish that the state court was 'fairly alerted' to the constitutional claim that the 'substance' of the ... claim [was] 'fairly presented.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Potts v. Chrans
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.