Nelson v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
121 F.3d 828 · 1997
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Tankleff v. Da Senkowski (1998), Lucidore v. New York State Division of Parole (2000)
18 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Arizona v. Fulminante · Lindh v. Murphy · Houston v. Lack · Barefoot v. Estelle · Miller v. Fenton
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No single criterion controls whether an accused's confession is voluntary: whether a confession was obtained by coercion is determined only after careful evaluation of the totality of the surrounding circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are debatable among jurists of reason; that a court could resolve the issues [in a different manner]; or that the questions are adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When reviewing a habeas petition, '[t]he factual findings of the New York Courts are presumed to be correct.'”
2 later decisions 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.