Stockton v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
41 F.3d 920 · 1994
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2018 · most notably Fullwood v. Lee (2002), Barnes v. Thompson (1995)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Coleman v. Thompson · Murray v. Carrier · McCleskey v. Zant · Sumner v. Mata
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot establish cause to excuse his default if he should have known of such claims through the exercise of reasonable diligence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Brady does not compel the disclosure of evidence available to the defendant from other sources, including diligent investigation by the defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“all of the facts on which the current petition was based were either known or available to the petitioner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.