Lopez v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
574 U.S. 1 · 2014
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Tutun v. United States (1926), Brown v. Davenport (2022)
2 federal appellate ·
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 2 U.S.C. § 192 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brecht v. Abrahamson · In re Oliver · Russell v. United States · Griffin v. United States · Cole v. State of Arkansas
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“determined by the Supreme Court of the United States.”
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.