Scheanette v. Quarterman’s Empirical Analysis
482 F.3d 815 · 2007
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Blue v. Thaler (2011), Ortiz v. Quarterman (2007)
9 federal appellate ·
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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Slack v. McDaniel · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · Coleman v. Thompson
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As to the law of capital murder and murder, our law provides that a person commits murder when he intentionally or knowingly causes the death of an individual. A person commits capital murder when such person intentionally commits the murder the course of committing or attempting to commit the offense of retaliation. As to the law of retaliation, our law provides that a person commits an offense if he intentionally or knowingly threatens to harm another by an unlawful act in retaliation for, or- on account of, the service or status of another, A, as a prospective witness; or B, a person who has reported or who the actor knows intends to report the occurrence of a crime, (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ortiz v. Quarterman“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. Ramey v. Davis
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.