Mack v. Caspari’s Empirical Analysis
92 F.3d 637 · 1996
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably United States v. Allen (2001), United States v. Reed Raymond Prior (1997)
28 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Neil v. Biggers · United States v. Young · Irvin v. Dowd · Darden v. Wainwright
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There appears to be a decisional split within our Circuit on whether plain-error review by a state appellate court waives a procedural default by a habeas petitioner, allowing collateral review by this court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Under this standard, a petitioner must show that there is a reasonable probability that the error complained of affected the outcome of the trial i.e., that absent the alleged impropriety, the verdict probably would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leisure v. Bowersox“[i]t is well settled that 'there is no constitutional right to an attorney in state post-conviction proceedings.'”
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.