fairly presented
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 404 U.S. 270 - Picard v. Connor · 1971Most cited · 5,888 citing opinions
exhaustion doctrine
the substance of a federal habeas corpus claim must first be presented to the state courts
How often courts cite the case defining “fairly presented”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “fairly presented” — 5,882 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.