Moore v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
153 F.3d 1086 · 1998
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 155 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Cargle v. Mullin (2003), United States v. Nichols (1999)
43 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2261 (§ 107 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Foman v. Davis · Coleman v. Thompson · Ohio v. Roberts · Kyles v. Whitley
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 155 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Cumulative error analysis applies where there are two or more actual errors; it does not apply to the cumulative effect of non-errors.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an individualized and reliable sentencing determination based on the defendant's circumstances, his background, and the crime”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a significant doubt that this evidence would have caused at least one juror to choose life rather than death.”
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.