Shoop v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
2019
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Appellate journey
reviewedHill v. Anderson (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Atkins v. Virginia · Harrington v. Richter · McNeill v. United States · Ford v. Wainwright · Harrington v. Richter
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.
“Atkins did not definitively resolve how [the adaptive functioning prong] was to be evaluated but instead left its application in the first instance to the State.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Atkins gave no comprehensive definition of 'mental retardation' for Eighth Amendment purposes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“clearly established at the time of the [state] adjudication.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pizzuto v. Blades · Smith v. Sharp
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.