Bobby v. Bies’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
97 federal appellate · 14 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 266 later decisions (14 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2026 · most notably State v. Maxwell (2014), 134 S. Ct. 1986 - Hall v. Florida (2014)
97 federal appellate · 14 district · 48 state decisions — followed in 13 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
reviewedBies v. Bagley (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Ashe v. Swenson · Atkins v. Virginia · Penry v. Lynaugh · Taylor v. Sturgell · Sattazahn v. Pennsylvania
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 266 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen an issue of fact or law is actually litigated and determined by a valid and final judgment, and the determination is essential to the judgment, the determination is conclusive in a subsequent action between the parties, whether on the same or a different claim.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“did not provide definitive procedural or substantive guides for determining when a person”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“le[ft] to the States the task of developing appropriate ways”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.