Simpson v. Sparkman’s Empirical Analysis
94 F.3d 199 · 1996
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Coe v. Bell (1998), Simpson v. Jones (2000)
15 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Coleman v. Thompson · Harris v. Reed · Ylst v. Nunnemaker · Johnson v. Brown
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a state court judgment appears to have rested primarily on federal law or was interwoven with federal law, a state procedural rule is an independent and adequate state ground only if the state court rendering judgment in the case clearly and expressly stated that its judgment rested on a procedural bar.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Addressing the difficulty of interpreting unexplained state court orders, the Supreme Court has held that “where there has been one reasoned state judgment rejecting a federal claim, later unexplained orders upholding that judgment or rejecting the same claim [are presumed to] rest upon the same ground.” Ylst v. Nunnemaker, 501 U.S. 797, 803 , 111 S.Ct. 2590 , 115 L.Ed.2d 706 (1991). However, because there are no state court decisions rejecting petitioner’s due process claim, this presumption is also unavailable. Thus, we are left to our own devices in interpreting the Kentucky Court of Appeals’ denial of petitioner’s request for a writ of habeas corpus. Even though the Kentucky Court of Appeals was silent as to its reasons for denying petitioner a writ of habeas corpus on his due process claim, we will not assume that the court did not observe the applicable procedural bar. Instead, we will assume that had the state court addressed petitioner’s due process claim, it would not have ignored its own procedural rules and would have enforced the procedural bar. See Tower v. Phillips, 7 F.3d 206, 211 (11th Cir.1993).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eskridge v. Konteh
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.