Van Lynn v. Farmon’s Empirical Analysis
347 F.3d 735 · 2003
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2021 · most notably Frantz v. Hazey (2008), Parle v. Runnels (2007)
31 federal appellate · 2 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Williams v. Taylor · Faretta v. California · Godinez v. Moran · Early v. Packer · 2 Cal. 3d 118 - People v. Marsden
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where a state court holds, as it did here, that a defendant is not competent to represent herself based on the application of a legal principle that contradicts the governing legal principle on competency set forth in clearly established Supreme Court case law, a federal court may not avoid granting habeas relief by positing an alternative reason for the state court’s decision that might have enabled the state court to reach the same result, where the record reveals that the state court did not base its decision on that alternative reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hirschfield v. Payne“(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....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Grigas“In conducting our review, we look to the last reasoned state-court decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martinez v. Cate
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.