Villafuerte v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
111 F.3d 616 · 1997
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Ortiz v. Stewart (1998), Turner v. Calderon (2002)
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Stone v. Powell · Engle v. Isaac
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a constitutional violation has occurred will depend upon the evidence in the case and the overall instructions given to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Johnson“the error `had substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury's verdict,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“so fatally infected the proceedings as to render them fundamentally unfair.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.