Mu'Min v. Pruett’s Empirical Analysis
125 F.3d 192 · 1997
Citation profile
10 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2017 · most notably Bell v. Cone (2005), Wright v. Angelone (1998)
10 federal appellate ·
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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Teague v. Lane · Murray v. Carrier · Irvin v. Dowd
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“depend[ ] on a federal constitutional ruling,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the procedural default rule set forth in Slayton constitutes an adequate and independent state law ground for decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the state puts the defendant's future dangerousness in issue, and the only available alternative sentence to death is life imprisonment without possibility of parole, due process entitles the defendant to inform the capital sentencing jury — by either argument or instruction — that he is parole ineligible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McWee v. Weldon
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.