Read the report of the empirical study about habeas litigation:
King, Cheesman, and Ostrom, Final Technical Report: Habeas Litigation in U.S. District Courts: An Empirical Study of Habeas Corpus Cases Filed by State Prisoners Under the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
Read related law review articles by the authors:
Hoffmann & King, Rethinking the Federal Role in State Criminal Justice, 84 New York University Law Review 791 (2009)
Hoffmann & King, Right Problem, Wrong Solution, 1 Cal. L. Rev. Circuit (Aug. 2010)
Habeas corpus statutes:
Habeas case load statistics from the U.S. Courts:
http://www.uscourts.gov/Statistics.aspx
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