Early v. Packer’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
786 federal appellate · 122 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,847 later decisions (19 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Harrington v. Richter (2011), Rompilla v. Beard (2005)
786 federal appellate · 122 district · 6 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedPacker v. Hill (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Williams v. Taylor · Allen v. United States · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Lowenfield v. Phelps
Cited together with Williams v. Taylor · Strickland v. Washington · Lockyer Attorney General of California v. Andrade · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Brecht v. Abrahamson
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 1,847 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“confronts a set of facts that are materially indistinguishable from a decision of this Court and nevertheless arrives at a result different from our precedent.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“so long as neither the reasoning nor the result of the state-court decision contradicts them.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“(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.”
16 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.