Hamilton v. Vasquez’s Empirical Analysis
882 F.2d 1469 · 1989
Citation profile
64 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Duckett v. Godinez (1995), Jeffries v. Blodgett (1993)
64 federal appellate · 2 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Sanders v. United States · Illinois v. Allen · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Blackledge v. Allison · Hannahville Indian Community v. United States
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Hence, a petitioner who raises only questions of fact has the burden of providing the district court with the relevant portions of the state court record, or of showing his inability to do so.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) made a conscious decision deliberately to withhold them from a prior petition, (2) is pursuing needless piecemeal litigation, or (3) has raised the claims only to vex, harass, or delay.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, we have held that the district court is under no obligation to obtain and review the state court record when disposing of purely factual questions.”
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.