Fairchild v. Workman’s Empirical Analysis
579 F.3d 1134 · 2009
Citation profile
22 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Garza v. Davis (2010), Hooks v. Workman (2012)
22 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 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Kyles v. Whitley · Lockett v. Ohio · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“was contrary to ... clearly established [f]ederal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Williams v. Taylor , 529 U.S. 362 , 412, 120 S.Ct. 1495 , 146 L.Ed.2d 389 (2000). Thus, a state-court decision is contrary to clearly established federal law only”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e review the district court's legal analysis of the state[-]court decision de novo.”
2 later decisions 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.