Olsen v. McFaul’s Empirical Analysis
843 F.2d 918 · 1988
Citation profile
55 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably Byrd v. Collins (2000), Norris v. Schotten (1998)
55 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Sandstrom v. Montana
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]laims that a state erred in interpreting or applying its own criminal law or procedural rules are almost always rejected as grounds for granting the writ of habeas corpus.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the magnitude of the legal error and the innocence of the accused [were] manifest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The violation of a state statute or rule of practice does not, by itself, constitute deprivation of a right guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.