Walker v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
860 F.2d 1010 · 1988
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2006
3 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 Conley v. Gibson · Picard v. Connor · Anderson v. Harless · Searle v. Simon
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“required to provide the state courts with a fair opportunity to apply controlling legal principles to the facts bearing upon his constitutional claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nelson v. Nagle
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.