Peterson v. Scully’s Empirical Analysis
896 F.2d 661 · 1990
Citation profile
11 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Thomas Garcia v. Hazel Lewis Hale Creek Correctional Facility (1999), Quirama v. Michele (1993)
11 federal appellate ·
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 · Griffith v. Kentucky · Harris v. Reed · United States v. Johnson · Benjamin 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a state appellate court refuses to review the merits of a criminal defendant's claim of constitutional error because of his failure to comply with ... a `contemporaneous objection' rule, a federal court generally may not consider the merits of the constitutional claim on habeas corpus review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a procedural default does not bar consideration of a federal claim on ... habeas review unless the last state court rendering a judgment in the case 'clearly and expressly' states that its judgment rests on a state procedural bar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Appellate Division's opinion makes no mention of a procedural bar.”
1 later decision 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.