McKenzie v. McCormick’s Empirical Analysis
27 F.3d 1415 · 1994
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Lambert v. Blodgett (2004), Silva v. Woodford (2002)
19 federal appellate · 1 district · 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
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Townsend v. Sain · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Hickman v. Taylor · Mullaney v. Wilbur
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On habeas review, state court judgments of conviction and sentence carry a presumption of finality and legality and may be set aside only when a state prisoner carries his burden of proving that [his] detention violates the fundamental liberties of the person, safeguarded against state action by the Federal Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hayes v. Brown · Bean v. Calderon“State court judgments of conviction and sentence carry the presumption of finality and legality,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Silva v. Woodford“did or could have influenced the judge in his sentencing decision.”
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.