Wolfe v. Brigano’s Empirical Analysis
232 F.3d 499 · 2000
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably State v. Hale (2008), State v. Johnson (2006)
53 federal appellate · 11 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 Williams v. Taylor · Wainwright v. Witt · Patton v. Yount · Reynolds v. States · Morgan v. Illinois
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States; or (2) resulted in a decision that was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceeding.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miller v. Webb · King v. Bobby“[f]ailure to remove biased jurors taints the entire trial”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“each juror’s tentative statements that they would try to decide this case on the evidence presented at trial .... [was] without more, ... insufficient.”
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.