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← 844 FSUPP 460 - Jackson v. Duckworth

Jackson v. Duckworth’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
April 1997
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Fay v. Noia · Pennsylvania v. Finley · Darr v. Burford · Bartone v. United States

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “petition does not ask the court to address the merits of the federal claims in his state-court petition; instead, Jackson argues that the State's failure to resolve his post-conviction petition, in itself, constitutes a deprivation of due process and requires his release.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “'conditional writ,' whereby the State is ordered to decide the prisoner's appeal within a time certain or else release the prisoner.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  3. “a colorable state or federal claim that would warrant reversal of [his] conviction,”
    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.