Agan v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
119 F.3d 1538 · 1997
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably Posner v. Essex Insurance (1999), Parker v. Secretary for the Department of Corrections (2003)
29 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Murray v. Carrier · Estelle v. McGuire · Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Lindh v. Murphy · Pulley v. Harris
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“State courts are the final arbiters of state law, and federal habeas courts should not second-guess them on such matters.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]here conduct and not merely speech is involved . . . the overbreadth of a statute must not only be real, but substantial as well, judged in relation to the statute's plainly legitimate sweep.”
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.