Martin v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
891 F.2d 807 · 1989
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2008
12 federal appellate · 4 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 · Sandstrom v. Montana · Sanders v. United States · Marks v. United States · Rodriguez De Quijas v. Shearson/American Express, Inc.
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.
“[w]hen a fragmented Court decides a case and no single rationale explaining the result enjoys the assent of five Justices, 'the holding of the Court may be viewed as that position taken by those Members who concurred in the judgments on the narrowest grounds . . Marks v. United States, 430 U.S. 188, 193 , 51 L. Ed. 2d 260 , 97 S. Ct. 990 (1977). Closer examination of federal cases further exposes the majority's error. The federal courts distinguish between "successive”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only where the prisoner supplements his constitutional claim with a colorable showing of factual innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Dugger
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.