Morales v. Calderon’s Empirical Analysis
85 F.3d 1387 · 1996
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Pirtle v. Morgan (2002), Bennett v. Mueller (2003)
35 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1292
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Michigan v. Long · Harris v. Reed · Victor v. Nebraska · Howlett Ex Rel. Howlett v. Rose
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“clear, consistently applied, and well-established”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. James Edward King v. A. Lamarque, Warden · 96 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 9269, 96 Daily Journal D.A.R. 15,299 Arthur Calderon, Warden, and James Gomez, Director of the California Department of Corrections v. U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (Sacramento), Blufford Hayes, Jr., Real Party in Interest“[A] procedural default based on an ambiguous order that does not clearly rest on independent and adequate state grounds is not sufficient to preclude federal collateral review.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]hat the application of a[procedural bar] rule requires the exercise of judicial discretion does not render the rule inadequate to support a state decision.”
4 later decisions 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.