Knowles v. Muniz’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Teague v. Lane · Estelle v. McGuire
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Futility would exist if the petitioner seeks a stay to exhaust a meritless claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Torres v. McDowell“will be denied when the court finds such a stay would be futile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Torres v. McDowell
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.