Fearance v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
56 F.3d 633 · 1995
Citation profile
32 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Dennis Thurl Dowthitt v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division (2000), Nobles v. Johnson (1997)
32 federal appellate · 5 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Teague v. Lane · Murray v. Carrier · Engle v. Isaac · McCleskey v. Zant
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fearance was not the unwilling victim of a Bleak House-like procedural system hopelessly bogged down; at every turn, he, without complaining about the accumulating period on death row, sought extensions of time, hearings, and reconsiderations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Allen v. Ornoski · White v. Johnson“After Barber, dismissals of Texas habeas petitions as an abuse of the writ should create a procedural bar under the Coleman standard.”). 68 . See, e.g., Nobles, 127 F.3d at 423 n. 32 (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Rocha v. Thaler“would have to demonstrate 'by clear and convincing evidence that but for a constitutional error, no reasonable juror would have found [him] eligible for the death penalty.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Turner v. Johnson
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.