Felton v. Barnett’s Empirical Analysis
912 F.2d 92 · 1990
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Smith v. Dixon (1994), Kenneth Bernard Rouse v. R.C. Lee, Warden, Central Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina (2003)
22 federal appellate · 2 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 Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · Murray v. Carrier · United States v. Frady
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“denial of certiorari [from the Supreme Court of North Carolina] is not to be given the effect of a judgment on the merits”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[u]pon a previous appeal the defendant was in a position to adequately raise the ground or issue underlying the present motion but did not do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Smith v. Dixon“denial of ... a writ [of certiorari from the Supreme Court of North Carolina] is not a judgment but is simply a refusal to hear the appeal”
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.