Morris v. Reynolds’s Empirical Analysis
264 F.3d 38 · 2001
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably Kennaugh v. Miller (2002), McKinney v. Artuz (2003)
16 federal appellate · 3 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 Blockburger v. United States · Williams v. Taylor · North Carolina v. Pearce · Teague v. Lane · Brown v. Ohio
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 48 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.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jenkins v. Artuz · Besser v. Walsh“clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court . . . refers to the holdings, as opposed to the dicta, of this Court's decisions as of the time of the relevant state-court decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Norde v. Keane · Dallio v. Spitzer“`independent obligation to say what the law is'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kennaugh v. Miller
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.