Williams v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
35 F.3d 159 · 1994
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Davis v. Johnson (1998), West v. Johnson (1996)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 11 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Giglio v. United States · Carnegie v. United States
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A Brady violation does not arise if the defendant, using reasonable diligence, could have obtained the information”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“presume all state court findings of fact to be correct in the absence of clear and convincing evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no definite distinction between deliberately and intentionally had been authoritatively expressed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Johnson
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.