Thomas v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
170 F.3d 466 · 1999
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Everett Lee Mueller v. Ronald J. Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections (1999), United States v. Roane (2004)
13 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 · Estelle v. McGuire · Schlup v. Delo · Herrera v. Collins · Sawyer 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States; or (2) resulted in a decision that was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State Court proceeding.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the phrase 'adjudication on the merits' in section 2254(d) excludes only claims that were not raised in state court, and not claims that were decided in state court, albeit in a summary fashion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“if the applicant has made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right,”
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.