House v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
345 federal appellate · 94 district · 105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,291 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2025 · most notably Cone v. Bell (2009), District Attorney's Office for the Third Judicial District v. Osborne (2009)
345 federal appellate · 94 district · 105 state decisions — followed in 25 states
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
reviewedHouse v. Bell (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2244 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Engle v. Isaac · Schlup v. Delo
Cited together with Schlup v. Delo · Herrera v. Collins · Strickland v. Washington · Murray v. Carrier · Williams v. Taylor
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 1,291 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must consider all the evidence, old and new, incriminating and exculpatory, without regard to whether it would necessarily be admitted under rules of admissibility that would govern at trial.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is more likely than not that no reasonable juror would have found petitioner guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not require absolute certainty about the petitioner's guilt or innocence.”
15 later decisions 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.