Delo v. Stokes’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
88 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 198 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2023 · most notably McCleskey v. Zant (1991), Herrera v. Collins (1993)
88 federal appellate · 6 district · 8 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
reviewedStokes v. Armontrout (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1651 · 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)
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Sanders v. United States · Barefoot v. Estelle · Butler v. McKellar · Weichert v. United States
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 198 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A stay of execution pending disposition of a second or successive federal habeas petition should be granted only when there are 'substantial grounds upon which relief might be granted.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A second or successive petition may be dismissed if the judge finds that it fails to allege new or different grounds for relief and the prior determination was on the merits or, if new and different grounds are alleged, the judge finds that the failure of the petitioner to assert those grounds in a prior petition constituted an abuse of the writ.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McCleskey v. Zant
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.