Williams v. Borg’s Empirical Analysis
139 F.3d 737 · 1998
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Samson Dubria v. Ga Smith (2000), United States v. Wright (2010)
13 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Chambers v. Mississippi · Estelle v. McGuire · United States v. Young · Lindh v. Murphy
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The relevant question is whether the prosecutor's comments so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] lawyer is entitled to characterize an argument with an epithet as well as a rebuttal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]triking the witness's entire testimony is an extreme sanction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.