Ward v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis
53 F.3d 106 · 1995
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2013
6 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
Relies on Schlup v. Delo · Sullivan v. Louisiana · McCleskey v. Zant · Mahan & Rowsey, Inc. v. Oklahoma Natural Gas · Michelson v. United States
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the petitioner shows, as a factual matter, that he did not commit the crime of conviction”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“more likely than not that no reasonable juror would have convicted him in the light of the new evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fairman v. Anderson
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.