Williams v. Bartow’s Empirical Analysis
481 F.3d 492 · 2007
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Sussman v. Jenkins (2011), Gilbert v. Merchant (2007)
16 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Williams v. Taylor · Barker v. Wingo · Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Lockyer Attorney General of California v. Andrade · Arizona v. Washington
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 28 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.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our concern for the deterrence factor cannot .... be used in all cases as a shield against the legitimate requirements of the justice system with respect to a particular defendant. Nothing in Blackledge .... presumed to give the defendant a free ride for separate crimes he may have committed, or to prevent a prosecutor from bringing new charges as a result of changed or altered circumstances which properly bear on prosecutorial discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“aris[es] out of the same nucleus of operative facts as the original charge,”
2 later decisions 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.