McMurtrey v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
539 F.3d 1112 · 2008
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Cannedy v. Adams (2013), United States v. Neal (2015)
10 federal appellate · 2 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · Bell Warden v. Cone · Godinez v. Moran
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 35 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.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the inability of the jury to observe the demeanor of the accused, the fact that expert testimony would have had to have been based solely on the printed record, and the six-year lapse between the time of trial and the proposed post-conviction hearing combined to compromise such a hearing beyond redemption.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Maxwell v. Roe“review under [28 U.S.C.] § 2254(d)(1) [of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996] is limited to the record that was before the state court that adjudicated the claim on the merits.”
1 later decision 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.