Rolan v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
445 F.3d 671 · 2006
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Lewis v. Horn (2009), Moody v. Quarterman (2007)
17 federal appellate · 7 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Sumner v. Mata · Rompilla v. Beard · Parke v. Raley · Lambert v. Blackwell
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] determination of a factual issue made by a State court shall be presumed to be correct. The applicant shall have the burden of rebutting the presumption of correctness by clear and convincing evidence.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lewis v. Horn · Al-Yousif v. Trani““We believe that Rolan’s conviction was only ‘weakly supported by the record’ and that the testimony of Vargas (and Aponte) is ‘sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.’ Therefore, it is manifest that the Superior Court’s decision was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the PCRA trial court proceeding.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brown v. Wenerowicz
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.