Hall v. Head’s Empirical Analysis
310 F.3d 683 · 2002
Citation profile
26 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Ward v. Hall (2010), Kelley v. Secretary for the Department of Corrections (2004)
26 federal appellate ·
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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Lindh v. Murphy · American Manufacturers Mutual Insurance v. United States · Michael Wayne Williams v. John Taylor Warden
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the applicant has failed to develop the factual basis of a claim in State court proceedings, the court shall not hold an evidentiary hearing on the claim unless the applicant shows that— (A) the claim relies on— (i) a new rule of constitutional law, made retroactive to cases on collateral review by the Supreme Court, that was previously unavailable; or (ii) a factual predicate that could not have been previously discovered through the exercise of due diligence; and (B) the facts underlying the claim would be sufficient to establish by clear and convincing evidence that but for constitutional error, no, reasonable factfinder would have found the applicant guilty of the underlying offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Clearly established federal law is not the case law of the lower federal courts, including this Court.' Instead, in the habeas context, clearly established federal law `refers to the holdings, as opposed to the dicta, of [the Supreme] Court[ ].'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“For Brown to show prejudice, “It is not enough for the [petitioner] to show the errors had some conceivable effect on the outcome of the proceeding ...,” because “[v]irtually every act or omission of counsel would meet that test.” [Strickland, 466 U.S. at 693 , 104 S.Ct. 2052 ], Nevertheless, a petitioner “need not show that counsel’s deficient conduct more likely than not altered the outcome in the case.” Id. at 693 [, 104 S.Ct. 2052 ], Rather, where, as here, a petitioner challenges a death sentence, “the question is whether there is a reasonable probability that, absent the errors, the sentencer ... would have concluded that the balance of aggravating and mitigating circumstances did not warrant death.” Id. at 695 [, 104 S.Ct. 2052 ],”
1 later decision 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.