Shafer v. Stratton’s Empirical Analysis
906 F.2d 506 · 1990
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Steele v. Young (1993), Andrews v. Deland (1991)
26 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Michigan v. Long · Engle v. Isaac · Caldwell v. Mississippi
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Habeas proceedings may not be used to set aside a state conviction on the basis of erroneous jury instructions unless the errors had the effect of rendering the trial so fundamentally unfair as to cause a denial of a fair trial in the constitutional sense.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baca v. Kerby · Orr v. Cowley“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 'clearly and expressly' states that its judgment rests on a state procedural bar.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Andrews v. Deland“or that the failure to consider the federal claim will result in a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Andrews v. Deland
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.