Healy v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
453 F.3d 21 · 2006
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Yeboah-Sefah v. Ficco (2009), O'Laughlin v. O'Brien (2009)
21 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Williams v. Taylor · Kyles v. Whitley · Grupo Mexicano Desarrollos v. Alliance Bond Fund Inc · Lockyer Attorney General of California v. Andrade
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 33 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.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e describe the facts as they were found by the SJC, supplemented with other record facts consistent - 5 - with the SJC's findings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“used a standard more favorable to [the defendant] than the federal standard, we consider the Brady - 10 - The New Hampshire Supreme Court reasonably concluded, after a detailed review of the record, that "there was overwhelming additional evidence of premeditation before the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Etienne v. Edmark
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.