Mendiola v. Schomig’s Empirical Analysis
224 F.3d 589 · 2000
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2021 · most notably Lambert v. Blackwell (2004), United States Hampton v. Leibach (2003)
26 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Brady v. State of Maryland · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Williams v. Taylor · United States v. Bagley
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a state court's findings rest on thin air, the petitioner will have little difficulty satisfying the standards for relief under § 2254. But if the state court's finding is supported by the record, even though not by a `hearing on the merits of the factual issue', then it is presumed to be correct.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Disbelief of recantations is sensible ... because the formality of a court, the presence of the litigants, and the gaze of a judge induce witnesses to hew more closely to the truth than they do when ... attempting to appease the losing side's advocate.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not require findings to be based on evidentiary hearings.”
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.