Willis v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
351 F.3d 741 · 2003
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Lundgren v. Mitchell (2006), Williams v. Anderson (2006)
8 federal appellate ·
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 · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Liteky et al United States · Picard v. Connor
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) the petitioner failed to comply with a state procedural rule that is applicable to the petitioner’s claim; (2) the state courts actually enforced the procedural rule in the petitioner’s case; and (3) the procedural forfeiture is an “adequate and independent” state ground foreclosing review of a federal constitutional claim.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(3) alleges grounds for relief, other than jurisdictional defects, which could have been raised on appeal from the conviction and sentence or in a prior motion under this subchapter, unless the defendant demonstrates (a) good cause for failure to raise such grounds on appeal or in the prior motion, and (b) actual prejudice from the alleged irregularities that support the claim for relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“firmly established and regularly followed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bickham v. Winn
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.