Smith v. Bowersox’s Empirical Analysis
311 F.3d 915 · 2002
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2023 · most notably Teti v. Bender (2007), Robinson v. Polk (2006)
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
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 Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Brady v. United States · Ring v. Arizona · Colorado v. Connelly
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Diligence will require in the usual case that the prisoner, at a minimum, seek an evidentiary hearing in state court in the manner prescribed by state law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robinson v. Polk“[The petitioner's] failure to comply with Missouri law reflects a lack of diligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robinson v. Polk“has failed to develop the factual basis of a claim”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Osborne v. Purkett
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.