Smith v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
892 F.2d 331 · 1989
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently October 2016 · most notably Zettlemoyer v. Fulcomer (1991), Holloway v. Horn (2004)
34 federal appellate · 2 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
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Wainwright v. Sykes · Townsend v. Sain · Murray v. Carrier · United States v. Frady
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) that the fact finding procedure employed by the state court was not adequate to afford a full and fair hearing; (3) that the material facts were not adequately developed at the state court hearing; (6) that the applicant did not receive a full, fair and adequate hearing in the state court proceeding; (8) or ... the federal court in consideration of [the] record ... concludes that such factual determination is not fairly supported by the record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[A] procedural default does not bar consideration of a federal claim on either direct or habeas review unless the last state court rendering a judgment in the case '”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Helton v. Fauver · Holloway v. Horn“Where the facts are in dispute, the federal court in habeas corpus must hold an evidentiary hearing if the habeas applicant did not receive a full and fair evidentiary hearing in a state court, either at the time of the trial or in a collateral proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Reese v. Fulcomer
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.