Selvage v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
975 F.2d 131 · 1992
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Nichols v. Scott (1995), Daniels v. United States (2001)
16 federal appellate · 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 Teague v. Lane · Murray v. Carrier · Lockett v. Ohio · Engle v. Isaac · McCleskey v. Zant
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since a claim that lacks a 'reasonable basis' plainly is not 'dictated by precedent,' a petitioner that meets the cause requirement cannot receive the benefit of the rule”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In procedural default cases, the cause standard requires the petitioner to show that “some objective factor external to the defense impeded counsel’s efforts” to raise the claim in state court. Objective factors that constitute cause include “ ‘interference by officials’” that makes compliance with the state’s procedural rule impracticable, and “a showing that the factual or legal basis for a claim was not reasonably available to counsel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. James v. Cain“we have held that the unsuccessful advancement of Penry claims by defense counsel as early as 1980 demonstrates that such claims were reasonably available at that time”). 19 . See Coble v. State, 871 S.W.2d 192 , 207 & n. 18 (Tex.Crim.App.1993) (rejecting defendant’s claim that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Staley
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.