Isaacs v. Head’s Empirical Analysis
300 F.3d 1232 · 2002
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2021 · most notably Woodford Warden v. Garceau (2003), Ward v. Hall (2010)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Slack v. McDaniel · Williams v. Taylor · Edwards v. Arizona · Jackson v. Denno · Griffin v. California
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A state court decision is “contrary to” clearly established federal law if either (1) the state court applied a rule that contradicts the governing law set forth by Supreme Court case law, or (2) when faced with materially indistinguishable facts, the state court arrived at a result different from that reached in a Supreme Court case. A state court conducts an “unreasonable application” of clearly established federal law if it identifies the correct legal rule from Supreme Court case law but unreasonably applies that rule to the facts of the petitioner’s case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“comment must be examined in context, in order to evaluate the prosecutor's motive and to discern the impact of the statement.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“to comment on the failure of the defense , as opposed to the defendant , to counter or explain the evidence.”
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.