Taylor v. Withrow’s Empirical Analysis
288 F.3d 846 · 2002
Citation profile
52 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2020 · most notably Bugh v. Mitchell (2003), Perruquet v. Briley (2004)
52 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Williams v. Taylor · Chambers v. Mississippi · California v. Trombetta · Patterson v. New York · Mathews v. United States
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“may not grant a writ of habeas to a petitioner in state custody with respect to any claim adjudicated on the merits in state court unless (1) the state court’s decision “was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court” ... or (2) the state court’s decision “was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceedings.””
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bugh v. Mitchell · Johnson v. Luoma“[T]he right to present a defense would be meaningless were a trial court completely free to ignore that defense when giving instructions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Keyes · Newton v. Million“not only bright-line rules but also the legal principles and standards flowing from precedent.”
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.