Abdurrahman v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
897 F.2d 71 · 1990
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Mayo v. Henderson (1994), Small v. Commissioner of Correction (2008)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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 Strickland v. Washington · Terry v. Ohio · Penson v. Ohio · Picard v. Connor · Pullman-Standard v. Swint
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]dherence to exhaustion principles does not require a petitioner to raise his claims 'by citing chapter and verse' of hornbook law; it simply mandates that the state be given a fair opportunity to hear the claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blissett v. Lefevre“a constitutional right to compel appointed counsel to press nonfrivolous points requested by the [defendant], if counsel, as a matter of professional judgment, decides not to present those points.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“representation fell below an objective standard of reasonableness”
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.