Dagley v. Russo’s Empirical Analysis
540 F.3d 8 · 2008
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2025
4 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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)
Relies on Williams v. Taylor · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Darden v. Wainwright · Lockyer Attorney General of California v. Andrade · Yarborough v. Alvarado
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“warned courts against giving too much weight to stray remarks in the course of a closing argument or assuming that the jury would interpret each and every statement in the most damaging manner possible”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he relevant question is whether the prosecutors' comments 'so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dorisca v. Marchilli“The SJC's approach in addressing Dagley's claim [relying on Massachusetts state law] was similar in substance to the approach taken by the Supreme Court[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Taylor v. Medeiros
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.