Ladd v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
864 F.2d 108 · 1989
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2015
12 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 Batson v. Kentucky · Townsend v. Sain · Swain v. State of Alabama · Lindsey v. Smith · Porter v. Wainwright
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.
“Under Alabama law, a failure to raise an issue either at trial or on direct appeal ... constitutes a procedural bar to the assertion of the claim in a subsequent collateral proceeding.”
2 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.