Larry Romine v. Frederick J. Head’s Empirical Analysis
253 F.3d 1349 · 2001
Citation profile
46 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably McNair v. Campbell (2005), Wright v. Secretary for the Department of Corrections W (2002)
46 federal appellate · 7 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
Relies on Williams v. Taylor · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Darden v. Wainwright · Caldwell v. Mississippi · Woodson v. North Carolina
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where, as here, the evidence does not clearly explain what happened ... the party with the burden loses.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A petitioner has the burden of establishing his right to federal habeas relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Caver v. Straub · Coloma v. Holder“the prosecutor in his closing argument gave the jurors a hell fire and brimstone mini-sermon the effect of which was to tell them that regardless of the law of Georgia, they ought to follow the law of God ... to rule out any consideration of mercy.”
1 later decision 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.