Bugh v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
329 F.3d 496 · 2003
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2024 · most notably White v. Mitchell (2005), Baze v. Parker (2004)
42 federal appellate · 3 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Ohio v. Roberts · Estelle v. McGuire · Lindh v. Murphy
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States; or (2) resulted in a decision that was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceeding.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Burton v. Renico · Biros v. Bagley“[t]here is no clearly established Supreme Court precedent which holds that a state violates due process by permitting propensity evidence in the form of other bad acts evidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must sustain the usual heavy burden that a due process claim entails: ... `it [must] offend[] some principle of justice so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental.'”
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.