Pelmer v. White’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 1518 · 1989
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably United States v. Chambers (1990), Fisher v. State (2004)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Foman v. Davis · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Engle v. Isaac
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] state court is entitled to express its views on federal constitutional issues without waiving its procedural default rules.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'That the law is unsettled on a point does not mean the legal basis for arguing the point is unavailable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carter v. State · Fisher v. State“[I]f the procedural default is the result of ineffective assistance of counsel, the Sixth Amendment itself requires that responsibility for the default be imputed to the State, which may not “conduc[t] trials at which persons who face incarceration must defend themselves without adequate legal assistance.” Ineffective assistance of counsel, then, is cause for a procedural default. However, we think that the exhaustion doctrine, which is “principally designed to protect the state courts’ role in the enforcement of federal law and prevent disruption of state judicial proceedings,” generally requires that a claim of ineffective assistance be presented to the state courts as an independent claim before it may be used to establish cause for a procedural default.”
1 later decision 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.