Stafford v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
59 F.3d 1025 · 1995
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2020
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Murray v. Carrier · Schlup v. Delo · McCleskey v. Zant
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We conclude that Appellant has failed to show that executing him after fifteen years on death row, during which time he faced at least seven execution dates, would constitute cruel and unusual punishment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ruiz v. Davis · White v. Johnson“a reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Gibson
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.