Buck v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
101 federal appellate · 15 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 322 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably United States of America v. Randall R. Neuhausser and Sheila Neuhausser (2001), Palasota v. Haggar Clothing Co. (2003)
101 federal appellate · 15 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 · Slack v. McDaniel · Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · Coleman v. Thompson · Teague v. Lane
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 322 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the COA stage, the only question is whether the applicant has shown that 'jurists of reason could disagree with the district court's resolution of his constitutional claims or that jurists could conclude the issues presented are adequate to deserve encouragement to proceed further.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the risk of injustice to the parties' and 'the risk of undermining the public's confidence in the judicial process.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“' Strickland 's first prong sets a high bar.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stechauner v. Smith · King 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.