Allen v. Nix’s Empirical Analysis
55 F.3d 414 · 1995
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2019
9 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Stone v. Powell · Schlup v. Delo
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To the extent petitioner attempts to couch his actual innocence claim in terms of a due process violation based upon the state court's denial of his motion for a new trial, petitioner does not allege an 'independent' constitutional violation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Farrar v. Raemisch“is insufficient to establish that [Morris] is actually innocent . . . since [their] testimony at best only tend[ed] to impeach [Triblett's] testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a Herrera-type claim would have to fail unless ... new facts unquestionably establish the petitioner's innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cornell v. Nix
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.