Whiddon v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 1266 · 1990
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Bolender v. Singletary (1994), Johnson v. Singletary (1991)
12 federal appellate · 1 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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · Murray v. Carrier · Engle v. Isaac · Barefoot v. Estelle
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in an extraordinary case, where a constitutional violation has probably resulted in the conviction of one who is actually innocent, a federal habeas court may grant the writ even in the absence of a showing of cause for the procedural default.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause there is no right to legal counsel in collateral proceedings, poor advice about such proceedings from a state-provided lawyer or inmate law clerks will not establish petitioner's claim of 'cause'”
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.