Graham v. Costello’s Empirical Analysis
299 F.3d 129 · 2002
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Villanueva v. United States (2003), Thai v. United States (2004)
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Slack v. McDaniel · Stone v. Powell · Stewart v. Martinez-Villareal · Liriano v. United States · Capellan v. Riley
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ur distinction between petitions that are denied 'on the merits' and those that are not does not depend on whether the federal court actually determined the merits of the underlying claims but rather on whether the prior denial of the petition conclusively determined that the claims presented could not establish a ground for federal habeas relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cosey v. Lilley
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.