McBee v. Abramajtys’s Empirical Analysis
929 F.2d 264 · 1991
Citation profile
19 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2013 · most notably Couch v. Jabe (1991), Stewart v. Peters (1992)
19 federal appellate ·
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 Teague v. Lane · Sandstrom v. Montana · Michigan v. Long · Harris v. Reed · Lane v. Peterson
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] federal claimant's procedural default precludes federal habeas review, like direct review, only if the last state court rendering a judgment in the case rests its judgment on the procedural default.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] federal court need not reach the merits of a habeas petition where the last state-court opinion clearly and expressly rested upon procedural default as an alternative ground.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Sowders
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.