adequate state ground
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 379 U.S. 443 - Henry v. State of Mississippi · 1965Most cited · 2,344 citing opinions
procedural
a litigant's procedural defaults in state proceedings do not prevent vindication of his federal rights unless the State's insistence on compliance with its procedural rule serves a legitimate state interest. In every case we must inquire whether the enforcement of a procedural forfeiture serves such a state interest
How often courts cite the case defining “adequate state ground”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “adequate state ground” — 2,341 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.