Bounds v. Delo’s Empirical Analysis
151 F.3d 1116 · 1998
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Antonio Richardson v. Michael Bowersox (1999), Winfield v. Roper (2006)
16 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Estelle v. McGuire · 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A state court's evidentiary rulings can form the basis for federal habeas relief under the due process clause only when they were so conspicuously prejudicial or of such magnitude as to fatally infect the trial and deprive the defendant of due process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'In determining whether to grant habeas relief, we review the district court's conclusions of law de novo and its findings of fact for clear error.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is not the province of a federal habeas court to reexamine state-court determinations on state-law questions. In conducting habeas review, a federal court is limited to deciding whether a conviction violated the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the United States.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lupien v. Clarke
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.