Byrd v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
209 F.3d 486 · 2000
Citation profile
100 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 254 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 115 Ohio St. 3d 22 - State v. Mundt (2007), United States of America v. Chucks Emuegbunam (2001)
100 federal appellate · 8 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Kotteakos v. United States · United States v. Bagley · Coleman v. Thompson
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 254 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must show by clear and convincing evidence that, but for a constitutional error, no reasonable juror would have found the petitioner eligible for the death penalty under the applicable state law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“120 days to allow for further investigation and discovery of possible habeas claims,”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In re Byrd · In re Byrd“the degree to which the remarks complained of have a tendency to mislead the jury and to prejudice the accused; whether they are isolated or extensive; whether they were deliberately or accidentally placed before the jury, and the strength of the competent proof to establish the guilt of the accused.”
4 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.