Kuhlmann v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
867 federal appellate · 89 district · 501 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,222 later decisions (60 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Brecht v. Abrahamson (1993), Teague v. Lane (1989)
867 federal appellate · 89 district · 501 state decisions — followed in 40 states
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
reviewedUnited States v. Massiah (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2255 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Younger v. Harris · Wainwright v. Sykes
Cited together with Murray v. Carrier · Massiah v. United States · Strickland v. Washington · Sanders v. United States · McCleskey v. Zant
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 2,222 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only where the prisoner supplements his constitutional claim with a colorable showing of factual innocence.”
124 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“available but not relied upon in a prior petition”
28 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McCleskey v. Zant · Schlup v. Delo“would have entertained a reasonable doubt of his guilt.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.