Blazak v. Ricketts’s Empirical Analysis
971 F.2d 1408 · 1992
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Bonin v. Calderon (1995), Sprosty v. Buchler (1996)
30 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
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 Murray v. Carrier · Rose v. Lundy · Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Carnegie v. United States · Catlin 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Moreover, unlike habeas grants exclusively on sentencing issues, the grant of a habeas petition because of the constitutional invalidity of a conviction raises concerns that a possibly innocent person has been unjustifiably incarcerated on death row for a number of years. Delaying retrial in such cases, while attorneys fight over a sentence that may no longer exist, risks the perpetuation of a monumental injustice, should retrial ultimately result in an acquittal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robbins v. Smith“In a habeas corpus proceeding before a circuit or district judge, the final order shall be subject to review, on appeal, by the court of appeals for the circuit where the proceeding is had.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[u]nless the district court's order is overturned on appeal, nothing is left for the district court but to ensure the execution of its judgment,”
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.