McGary v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
27 F.3d 181 · 1994
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Dobber Graham Malchi v. Rick Thaler (2000), RSR Corp. v. International Insurance (2010)
15 federal appellate · 1 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 Sanders v. United States · McCleskey v. Zant · Herrera v. Collins · Sawyer v. Whitley · United States v. Alaska
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the judge finds that it fails to allege new or different grounds for relief and the prior determination was on the merits or, if new and different grounds are alleged, the judge finds that the failure of the petitioner to assert those grounds in a prior petition constituted an abuse of the writ.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rodriguez v. Johnson“a state prisoner who is confined on a single judgment of conviction and who has a challenge to a denial of good time credit is usually required to bring his or her exiting good time credit claim in the same habeas petition as any other claim that he or she has against his or her conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A district court's decision to dismiss a second or subsequent federal habeas petition for abuse of the writ lies within its sound discretion. We will reverse such a dismissal only if we find an abuse of that discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rodriguez v. Johnson
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.