Gilmore v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
250 federal appellate · 37 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 603 later decisions (13 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2022 · most notably Schriro Director Arizona Department of Corrections v. Summerlin (2004), Caspari Superintendent Missouri Eastern Correctional Center et al Bohlen (1994)
250 federal appellate · 37 district · 83 state decisions — followed in 16 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Gideon v. Wainwright · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Buckley v. Valeo · 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 603 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To put it differently, a case announces a new rule if the result was not dictated by precedent existing at the time the defendant's conviction became final.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'watershed rules of criminal procedure' implicating the fundamental fairness and accuracy of the criminal procedure.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]utside of the capital context, we have never said that the possibility of a jury misapplying state law gives rise to a federal constitutional error. To the contrary, we have held that instructions that contain errors of state law may not form the basis for federal habeas relief.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nelson v. E · Czech v. Melvin
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.