Harris v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1,513 federal appellate · 333 district · 186 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4,753 later decisions (61 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Coleman v. Thompson (1991), Teague v. Lane (1989)
1,513 federal appellate · 333 district · 186 state decisions — followed in 17 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
reviewedHarris v. Reed (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Teague v. Lane · Fay v. Noia
Cited together with Coleman v. Thompson · Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Teague v. Lane
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 4,753 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' states that its judgment rests on a state procedural bar.”
70 later decisions quote this exact passage“a procedural default does not bar consideration of a federal claim on either direct or habeas review unless the last state court rendering a judgment in the case 'clearly and expressly' states that its judgment rests on a state procedural bar.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a state court need not fear reaching the merits of a federal claim in an alternative holding”
44 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.