Bowser v. Boggs’s Empirical Analysis
20 F.3d 1060 · 1994
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2012 · most notably Bradshaw v. Story (1996), Fero v. Kerby (1994)
22 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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Coleman v. Thompson · Estelle v. McGuire · United States v. Young · Brown v. Allen
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e will not second guess a state court's application or interpretation of state law ... unless such application or interpretation violates federal law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“federal habeas corpus relief does not lie for errors of state law.”
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.