James v. Bowersox’s Empirical Analysis
187 F.3d 866 · 1999
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Harrington v. Richter (2011), Harrington v. Richter (2011)
31 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Young · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Darden v. Wainwright · College Savings Bank v. Florida Prepaid Postsecondary Education Expense Board
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 68 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.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]ederal habeas relief should only be granted if the prosecutor's closing argument was so inflammatory and so outrageous that any reasonable trial judge would have sua sponte declared a mistrial.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process... it is not enough that the prosecutors' remarks were undesirable or even universally condemned.”
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.