Newman v. Metrish’s Empirical Analysis
543 F.3d 793 · 2008
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2022
7 federal appellate · 1 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Williams v. Taylor · United States v. Arnold · Towns v. Smith · King v. Bobby
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough circumstantial evidence alone can support a conviction, there are times that it amounts to only a reasonable speculation and not to sufficient evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“with the shooter to commit the murder or that he said or did anything to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matthews v. Jackson
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.