Aiken v. Spalding’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 881 · 1988
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2022
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Relies on Marshall v. Lonberger · Vasquez v. Hillery · Granberry v. Greer · Mathis v. New Jersey · Batchelor v. Cupp
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.
“[Where] a federal habeas petitioner presents newly discovered evidence or other evidence not before the state courts such as to place the case in a significantly different and stronger evidentiary posture than it was when the state courts considered it, the state courts must be given an opportunity to consider the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dickens v. Ryan“a significantly different and stronger evidentiary posture,”
1 later decision 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.