Bracy v. Schomig’s Empirical Analysis
286 F.3d 406 · 2002
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2025 · most notably 208 Ill. 2d 457 - People Ex Rel. Madigan v. Snyder (2004), Kenneth Bernard Rouse v. R.C. Lee, Warden, Central Prison, Raleigh, North Carolina (2003)
13 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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 Strickland v. Washington · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Sullivan v. Louisiana · Tumey v. State of 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Like all others sentenced to death, Bracy and Collins are entitled to our painstaking review of their convictions and death sentence because, as the Supreme Court has often recognized, death is different.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e are again mindful that death is indeed different.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“ordinarily 'actual bias' is not required, the appearance of bias is sufficient to disqualify a judge”
2 later decisions 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.