Harper v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
867 F.2d 455 · 1989
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2018
13 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Smith v. Murray · Reed v. Ross · State v. Harper
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“constitutional violation [claimed] has probably resulted in the conviction of one who is actually innocent....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“both adequate 'cause' to excuse his failure to raise the claims in state court and actual 'prejudice' that resulted because the state court did not address the merits of those claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“some objective factors external to the defense impeded counsel's efforts to comply with the state procedural rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Byrd v. Delo
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.