Merced v. McGrath’s Empirical Analysis
426 F.3d 1076 · 2005
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2021
9 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt · Adams v. Texas · Standefer v. United States · Sparf v. United States
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a violation of a juror's sworn duty to follow the law as instructed by the court,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“we are determining the reasonableness of the state courts’ ‘decision,’ not grading their papers.”). 5 . This is not to impugn the opinion of the Michigan Court of Appeals, which of course was without the benefit of the Crawford decision and which applied governing law extant at the time of its decision. 6 . To be sure, the level of the rule’s generality may bear on the question of whether a particular application was unreasonable. As the Court explained,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]t is the state court's decision, as opposed to its reasoning, that is judged under the 'unreasonable application’ standard.”); Onifer, 255 F.3d at 316 (citing Harris v. Stovall, 212 F.3d 940, 943 (6th Cir.2000)) (”
1 later decision 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.