Goeke v. Branch’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
95 federal appellate · 7 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 202 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2024 · most notably George Smith Warden v. Lee Robbins (2000), Villarreal v. State (1996)
95 federal appellate · 7 district · 48 state decisions — followed in 11 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
reviewedBranch v. Turner (from Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Mathews v. Eldridge · Teague v. Lane · Evitts v. Lucey · Godinez v. Moran · Saffle v. Parks
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 202 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“considers 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. If not, then the rule is new.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. McKune · Jones v. Gomez“dictated by precedent existing at the time the defendant's conviction became final.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The record supports the State's position that it raised the Teague claim. The State's efforts to alert the Eighth Circuit to the Teague problem provided that court with ample opportunity to make a reasoned judgment on the issue. The State did not waive the Teague issue; it must be considered now; and it is dispositive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Eaglin v. Welborn
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.