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Swarthout v. Cooke’s Empirical Analysis

562 U.S. 216 · 2011

Citation profile

124
cited by 124 later decisions
7
cited 7 times by the Supreme Court
12
states following
June 2025
most recently cited

21 federal appellate · 11 district · 38 state decisions

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Estelle v. McGuire · Engle v. Isaac · Greenholtz v. Inmates of Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex · Superintendent Massachusetts Correctional Institution Walpole v. Hill · Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson

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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[w]e first ask whether there exists a liberty or property interest of which a person has been deprived.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “The short of the matter is that the responsibility for assuring that the constitutionally adequate procedures governing California's parole system are properly applied rests with California courts, and is no part of the Ninth Circuit’s business.”); Harrington v. Richter, 562 U.S. 86 , 131 S.Ct. 770 , 786, 178 L.Ed.2d 624 (2011) (unanimously reversing our grant of habeas relief and criticizing us for”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “the application of all state-prescribed procedures in cases involving liberty or property interests”
    1 later decision 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.