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Sidney Allen Worthen v. Larry R. Meachum, Director, Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma

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Overruled in part
Court
Tenth Circuit
Citation
842 F.2d 1179
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
30 of 30
Citing cases (total)
30
Treatment dates
1991
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Worthen v. Meachum has been overruled in part: all 30 flagged citations have been read, and the confirmed treatment is listed below. The Supreme Court's decision in Coleman v. Thompson replaced the deliberate bypass test Worthen used when a habeas petitioner took no direct state appeal with the cause and prejudice standard.
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The Tenth Circuit expressly recognized that effect in Gilbert v. Scott. Worthen's separate holdings about the validity of guilty pleas were not displaced by Coleman.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

30 later cases cite Sidney Allen Worthen v. Larry R. Meachum, Director, Attorney General of the State of Oklahoma; 30 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Supreme Court rejected Worthen's deliberate bypass rule for a petitioner's failure to take any direct state appeal, applying the cause and prejudice standard instead.

    Coleman v. Thompson · Supreme Court of the United States · filed

    Carrier applied the cause and prejudice standard to the failure to raise a particular claim on appeal. There is no reason that the same standard should not apply to a failure to appeal at all.
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

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