Couch v. Jabe’s Empirical Analysis
951 F.2d 94 · 1991
Citation profile
27 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably Combs v. Coyle (2000), Jay Scott v. Betty Mitchell Warden (2000)
27 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 Coleman v. Thompson · Michigan v. Long · Harris v. Reed · McCleskey v. Zant · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here ... the last reasoned opinion on the claim explicitly imposes a procedural default, we will presume that a later decision rejecting the claim did not silently disregard that bar and consider the merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Federico v. Yukins“[Wjhether a state court rested its holding on procedural default, thus barring federal habeas review, is a question of law to be reviewed de novo.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless the last state court rendering a judgment in the case 'clearly and expressly' states that its judgment rests on a state procedural bar”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Federico v. Yukins
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.