Walker v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
589 F.3d 127 · 2009
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably United States v. King (2011), 765 F. Supp. 2d 719 - Bradshaw v. Hilco Receivables, LLC (2011)
5 federal appellate · 9 district · 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · United States v. Bagley · Coleman v. Thompson
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a federal court may consider matters of public record such as documents from prior state court proceedings in conjunction with a Rule 12(b)(6) motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“assessed under the same standard that applies to a Rule 12(b)(6) motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“) Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.