In re McDonald’s Empirical Analysis
514 F.3d 539 · 2008
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Moore v. United States (2017), In re Watkins (2015)
12 federal appellate ·
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. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Kyles v. Whitley · Grupo Mexicano Desarrollos v. Alliance Bond Fund Inc · Pace v. Superintendent State Correctional Institution at Graterford · Byrd v. Collins · United States of America v. Chucks Emuegbunam
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court of appeals may authorize the filing of a second or successive application [in the district court] only if it determines that the application makes a prima facie showing that the application satisfies the requirements of this subsection.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“render[s] irrelevant other possible grounds for dismissal such as ultimate lack of merit, nonexhaustion, procedural default, and the like.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Henry v. Spearman“[G]iven the lack of direct evidence linking McDonald to the underlying crimes, Harris's recanting of her trial testimony looms large.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clark v. Nagy
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.