Gandarela v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
286 F.3d 1080 · 2002
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2021 · most notably Riley v. Payne (2003), Griffin v. Johnson (2003)
10 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Estelle v. McGuire · Schlup v. Delo · Sawyer v. Whitley · Kuhlmann v. Wilson · Carriger v. Stewart
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.
“[w]e need not and do not decide the issue of whether a request for an evidentiary hearing to determine issues regarding actual innocence falls under [section] 2254(e)(2) because regardless of whether [section] 2254(e)(2) applies, a hearing [is] not necessary in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Griffin v. Johnson“[n]one of the proffered evidence involves a recantation by the victim or the other children who witnessed petitioner kissing her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arnold v. Dittmann“has failed to show what ... an evidentiary hearing might reveal of material import on his assertion of actual innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Griffin 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.