Duff-Smith v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
973 F.2d 1175 · 1992
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Davis v. Johnson (1998), Trevino v. Johnson (1999)
22 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Coleman v. Thompson
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nfirmities in state habeas corpus proceedings do not constitute grounds for federal habeas relief”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[d]iscovery decisions in habeas proceedings ... [also] are left entirely to the sound discretion of the district court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Andrews v. Collins
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.