Vonaire T. Washington v. Judy Smith, Warden, Oshkosh Correctional Institution’s Empirical Analysis
219 F.3d 620 · 2000
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 132 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Ernest Sutton Bell v. Mack Jarvis Robert Smith (2000), State v. Thiel (2003)
51 federal appellate · 2 district · 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 · Williams v. Taylor · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Nix v. Whiteside · Paul Schaff v. Donald Snyder
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 132 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a fact established by existing evidence.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“contrary to . . . or involved an unreasonable application of”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Plus, the jury surely wondered where these people were, especially Ms. Richardson who had been named on [the petitioner’s] Notice of Alibi and who Mr. Engle specifically mentioned at least at voir dire. There was a negative inference against [the petitioner] based on their absence.... Given the absence of these witnesses, the jury had good reason to find [the petitioner’s] alibi dubious.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.