Graham v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
405 federal appellate · 37 district · 213 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 982 later decisions (36 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably Williams v. Taylor (2000), Miller v. Alabama (2012)
405 federal appellate · 37 district · 213 state decisions — followed in 27 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
reviewedGraham v. Lynaugh (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 994
Relies on Gregg v. Georgia · Teague v. Lane · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Griffith v. Kentucky
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 982 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is clearly meant to apply only to a small core of rules requiring observance of those procedures that ... are implicit in the concept of ordered liberty.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“determine whether a state court considering [the defendant's] claim at the time his conviction became final would have felt compelled by existing precedent to conclude that the rule [he] seeks was required by the Constitution”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dykes v. Borg · Smith v. Hall“[b]ecause we operate from the premise that such procedures would be so central to an accurate determination of innocence or guilt, ... it is unlikely that many such components of basic due process have yet to emerge.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Ramirez v. Hatcher · Dykes v. Borg
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.