Boyle v. McKune’s Empirical Analysis
544 F.3d 1132 · 2008
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Fairchild v. Workman (2009), Matthews v. Workman (2009)
10 federal appellate · 2 district · 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Anders v. California · Kimmelman v. Morrison · George Smith Warden v. Lee Robbins
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An adjudication on the merits occurs when the state court resolves the case on substantive rather than procedural grounds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matthews v. Workman
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.