Spencer v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
5 F.3d 758 · 1993
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions (26 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2021 · most notably Russel William Burket v. Ronald Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections (2000), Milone v. Camp (1994)
13 federal appellate · 3 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Batson v. Kentucky · Coleman v. Thompson · Murray v. Carrier · Estelle v. McGuire
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a truly persuasive demonstration of 'actual innocence' made after trial would render the execution of a defendant unconstitutional, and warrant federal habeas relief if there were no state avenue open to process such a claim,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a claim of 'actual innocence' is not itself a constitutional claim, but instead a gateway through which a habeas petitioner must pass to have his otherwise barred constitutional claim heard on the merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Spencer v. Murray
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.