Railey v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
540 F.3d 393 · 2008
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably United States v. Munoz (2010), Moore v. Mitchell (2013)
7 federal appellate · 1 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 455
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Chapman v. State of California · United States v. Olano · Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that judicial bias is structural error, not susceptible to forfeiture (or harmless error analysis).”
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.