Franzen v. Brinkman’s Empirical Analysis
877 F.2d 26 · 1989
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Ortiz v. Stewart (1998), Trevino v. Johnson (1999)
27 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Rose v. Hodges · Samarzia v. Clark County · Kirby v. Dutton · Millard v. Lynaugh
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] petition alleging errors in the state post-conviction review process is not addressable through habeas corpus proceedings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hines v. Sumner · Barr v. Ratelle
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.