Skinner v. Quarterman’s Empirical Analysis
576 F.3d 214 · 2009
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020
2 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Rompilla v. Beard · Dennis Thurl Dowthitt v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division · Ott v. Johnson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We must be particularly wary of arguments that essentially come down to a matter of degrees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hummel v. Davis
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.