Bradshaw v. Richey’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
115 federal appellate · 36 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 379 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Cullen v. Pinholster (2011), Cullen v. Pinholster (2011)
115 federal appellate · 36 district · 12 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedRichey v. Mitchell (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Estelle v. McGuire · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Marks v. United States
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 379 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We have repeatedly held that a state court's interpretation of state law, including one announced on direct appeal of the challenged conviction, binds a federal court sitting in habeas corpus.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here was no reason to read 'another' (countertextually) as meaning only 'the actual victim,' since the doctrine of transferred intent was 'firmly rooted in Ohio law.''' Id. Thus, the Court concluded the respondent in Bradshaw "could not plausibly claim unfair surprise that the doctrine applied in his case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. JACKSON v. STATE“We have repeatedly held that a state court's interpretation of state law ... binds a federal court sitting in habeas corpus.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Chamblee v. Florida
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.