Brooks v. Bagley’s Empirical Analysis
513 F.3d 618 · 2008
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Clabourne v. Ryan (2014), Sharpe v. Bell (2010)
22 federal appellate · 1 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Ohio Northern District Court)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Harris v. Reed · Carey Warden v. Saffold
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Just as a state court wishing to invoke an independent and adequate state ground to dispose of a case “need not fear reaching the merits of a federal claim in an alternative holding,” so it need not fear losing the benefit of the doubt that AEDPA gives to state court rulings whenever it invokes an independent and adequate state ground as an alternative holding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“accusation that [Defendant’s wife] was having an incestuous relationship with the couple’s oldest son,” and the Defendant’s”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tibbetts v. Bradshaw
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.