Williams v. Quarterman’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Southern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Atkins v. Virginia · Herrera v. Collins · Gonzalez v. Crosby · Flowers v. Southern Regional Physician Services Inc.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) 'significantly subaverage’ general intellectual functioning; (2) accompanied by 'related' limitations in adaptive functioning; (3) the onset of which occurs prior to the age of 18”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Thaler
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.