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873 F.2d 830 · 1989

Citation profile

71
cited by 71 later decisions
3
cited 3 times by the Supreme Court
April 2018
most recently cited

22 federal appellate ·

How this case has been cited

Cited by 71 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2018 · most notably Ylst v. Nunnemaker (1991), Rondon v. Indiana (1989)

22 federal appellate ·

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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 Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt

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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a procedural default does not bar consideration of a federal claim ... unless the last state court rendering judgment in the case 'clearly and expressly' states that its judgment rests on a state procedural bar,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Nunnemaker v. Ylst
  2. “required when the record is complete or the petitioner raised only legal claims that can be resolved without the taking of additional evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Lawrence v. Lensing
  3. “The Constitution does not require appellate counsel to raise every nonfrivolous ground that might be pressed upon appeal.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Andrews v. Collins

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.