Porterfield v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
258 F.3d 484 · 2001
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2024 · most notably Gonzalez v. Thaler (2012), Gonzalez v. Thaler (2012)
9 federal appellate ·
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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Slack v. McDaniel · Barefoot v. Estelle · United States of America v. James Marcello Anthony Zizzo · Lyons v. Ohio Adult Parole Authority · Alexander v. Johnson
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because the district court [was] already deeply familiar with the claims raised by petitioner,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Murphy v. Ohio · King v. Trippett““(1) Unless a circuit justice or judge issues a certificate of appeal-ability, an appeal may not be taken to the court of appeals . . . “(2) A certificate of appealability may issue under paragraph (1) only if the applicant has made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right. “(3) The certificate of appealability under paragraph (1) shall indicate which specific issue or issues satisfy the showing required by paragraph (2).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“jurists of reason would find it debatable whether the petition states a valid claim of the denial of a constitutional right and that jurists of reason would find it debatable whether the district court was correct in its procedural ruling.”
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.