Goodwin R. Brodit v. Steven J. Cambra, Jr., Warden’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2022 · most notably Lambert v. Blodgett (2004), Kennedy v. Lockyer (2004)
3 federal appellate · 2 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Chambers v. Mississippi · Estelle v. McGuire · Wiggins v. Smith, 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only reverse a judgment of the state that was adjudicated on the merits if the state’s decision was based on an objectively unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the state court proceeding, ... or if the state court’s decision was contrary to, or involves an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law as determined by the governing legal principle or principles set forth by the Supreme Court at the time the state court renders its decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sharp v. Blodgett
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.