McFarland v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
244 federal appellate · 37 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 635 later decisions (27 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2023 · most notably Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. White (2006), Woodford Warden v. Garceau (2003)
244 federal appellate · 37 district · 24 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
reviewedMcFarland v. Collins (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Townsend v. Sain · McCleskey v. Zant · Barefoot v. Estelle · Blanchette v. Connecticut General Insurance Corporations
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 635 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By providing indigent capital defendants with a mandatory right to qualified legal counsel in these proceedings, Congress has recognized that federal habeas corpus has a particularly important role to play in promoting fundamental fairness in the imposition of the death penalty.”
47 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n any post-conviction proceeding under [§] 2254.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“before whom a habeas corpus proceeding is pending”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nobles v. Johnson · Isaacs v. Head
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.