Roberts v. Arave’s Empirical Analysis
847 F.2d 528 · 1988
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2022
14 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Engle v. Isaac · Reed v. Ross · Leroy Williams v. Louie L. Wainwright, Director, Division of Corrections, State of Florida
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Court has provided some guidance: 22 [T]he existence of cause for a procedural default must ordinarily turn on whether the prisoner can show that some objective factor external to the defense impeded [his] efforts to comply with the State's procedural rule. Without attempting an exhaustive catalog of such objective impediments to compliance with a procedural rule, we note that a showing that the factual or legal basis for a claim was not reasonably available to counsel, or that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Buffalo v. Sunn
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.