Graves v. Cockrell’s Empirical Analysis
351 F.3d 143 · 2003
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2021 · most notably United States v. Sipe (2004), Summers v. Dretke (2005)
16 federal appellate · 5 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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Slack v. McDaniel · Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · United States v. Agurs · Murray v. Carrier
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was extremely favorable to Graves and would have provided powerful ammunition for counsel to use in cross-examining Carter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Graves“nondiscovery of the allegedly favorable evidence was not the result of a lack of due diligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ramey v. Davis
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.