Dunckhurst v. Deeds’s Empirical Analysis
859 F.2d 110 · 1988
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Crawford v. State (2005), McCormick v. State (1993)
9 federal appellate · 3 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York · Speiser v. Randall · Texas v. Certain Named & Unnamed Undocumented Alien Children
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] petition for habeas corpus will be entertained only on the ground that the person in custody is being held in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. George v. Bj Bunnell“must so infect[ ] the entire trial that the resulting conviction violated due process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Johnson
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.