Hendricks v. Vasquez’s Empirical Analysis
908 F.2d 490 · 1990
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Hendricks v. Calderon (1995), Hendricks v. Vasquez (1992)
20 federal appellate · 3 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2242 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Blackledge v. Allison · MacHibroda v. United States · Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Herman v. W Claudy · First National Bank v. United States · United Gas Pipe Line Co. v. Mobile Gas Service Corp.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f it plainly appears from the face of the petition and any exhibits annexed to it that the petitioner is not entitled to relief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the allegations in the petition are 'vague [or] conclusory' or 'palpably incredible' or 'patently frivolous or false,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“summary dismissal followed by the issuance of a certificate of probable cause is 'intrinsically contradictory' and warrants reversal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maney v. Zenon
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.