Chavez v. Kerby’s Empirical Analysis
848 F.2d 1101 · 1988
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently July 2011 · most notably Dockins v. Hines (2004), Fero v. Kerby (1994)
23 federal appellate · 6 district · 4 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 Beck v. Alabama · Hopper v. Evans · Brinlee v. Crisp · United States v. Sielaff · Nichols v. Gagnon
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'State court rulings on the admissibility of evidence may not be questioned in federal habeas corpus proceedings unless they render the trial so fundamentally unfair as to constitute a denial of federal constitutional rights.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] petitioner in a non-capital case is not entitled to habeas relief for the failure to give a lesser-included offense instruction 'even if in our view there was sufficient evidence to warrant the giving of an instruction on a lesser included offense.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lujan v. Tansy · Fero v. Kerby
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.