House v. Hatch’s Empirical Analysis
527 F.3d 1010 · 2008
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Hooks v. Workman (2012), Byrd v. Workman (2011)
31 federal appellate · 5 district · 4 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · Batson v. Kentucky · Williams v. Taylor · Teague v. Lane · Arizona v. Fulminante
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States; or (2) resulted in a decision that was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceeding.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A decision is “contrary to” clearly established federal law ... if the state court applies a rule that contradicts the governing law set forth in Supreme Court cases or if the state court confronts a set of facts ... materially indistinguishable from a decision of the Supreme Court and nevertheless arrives at a result different from the result reached by the Supreme Court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e then consider whether the state court decision was ‘contrary to’ or an ‘unreasonable application of that clearly established federal law----A decision is ‘contrary to’ clearly established federal law for purposes of § 2254 if the state court applies a rule that contradicts the governing law set forth in [Supreme Court] cases or if the state court confronts a set of facts that are materially indistinguishable from a decision of [the Supreme Court] and nevertheless arrives at a result different from the result reached by the Supreme Court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Welch v. Workman · Welch v. Workman
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.