Chambers v. Bowersox’s Empirical Analysis
157 F.3d 560 · 1998
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 192 Ill. 2d 348 - People v. Simms (2000), Barrett v. Acevedo (1999)
27 federal appellate · 6 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Lindh v. Murphy · Harris v. Reed · Snowden v. Hughes · Simmons v. South Carolina
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he simplest way to decide [an issue] is often the best,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“represent a rather narrow rule: some aspects of the sentencing process, created by state law, are so fundamental that the state must adhere to them in order to impose a valid sentence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[p]lain errors affecting substantial rights may be considered in the discretion of the court when the court finds that manifest injustice or miscarriage of justice has resulted therefrom.”
1 later decision 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.