Hardin v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
845 F.2d 953 · 1988
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2013
6 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
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Giglio v. United States · Wainwright v. Sykes · Caldwell v. Mississippi
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“federal habeas review is precluded only if the state court's adjudication on the merits is made in the alternative and does not constitute the principal basis for the state court's denial of relief on collateral challenge of conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In the event that the federal court cannot discern on which basis the state court relied to deny collateral relief--whether because the claims were considered foreclosed by procedural default or because they were considered to lack merit---the federal court must address the claims on the merits.”
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.