Spears v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
283 F.3d 992 · 2002
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024
7 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 22 U.S.C. § 2261 · 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2261 (§ 107 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2262 (§ 107 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2263 (§ 107 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2265 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2266 (§ 107 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Steel Co. v. Citizens for a Better Environment · Duncan v. Walker · SAUCIER v. KATZ Et Al. · United States v. Mead Corp.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The panel’s statement ... is clearly unnecessary to its resolution of the case, does not affect its outcome in any manner, and constitutes an advisory opinion.... The contents of that portion of the panel opinion are entirely dicta.”) with id. at 1006-07 (Kozinski, J., filing statement concerning denial of petitions for rehearing en banc) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[S]o long as the issue is presented in the case and expressly addressed in the opinion, that holding is binding and cannot be overlooked or ignored by later panels of this court or by other courts of the circuit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“after final State court affirmance of the conviction and sentence on direct review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. Luebbers
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.