Gordon v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2005 · most notably Barefoot v. Estelle (1983), Lozada v. Deeds (1991)
28 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Carafas v. J · Allen v. Williamson · Nowakowski v. Maroney · Stewart v. Beto · Dixon v. Florida
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must demonstrate that the issues are debatable among jurists of reason; that a court could resolve the issues [in a different manner]; or that the questions are 'adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“debatable among jurists of reason; that a court could resolve the issues [in a different manner]; or that the questions are 'adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'substantial showing of the denial of [a] federal right.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.