Barker v. Fleming’s Empirical Analysis
423 F.3d 1085 · 2005
Citation profile
56 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Murray v. Schriro (2014), Hurles v. Ryan (2014)
56 federal appellate · 10 district · 1 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 · Williams v. Taylor · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Kyles v. Whitley
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States; or (2) resulted in a decision that was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceeding.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The mere possibility that an item of undisclosed information might have helped the defense, or might have affected the outcome of the trial, does not establish 'materiality' in the constitutional sense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to a single state court decision, not to some amalgamation of multiple state court decisions.” Id. at 1093 . We have considered more than one decision when”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Towery v. Ryan
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.