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← 594 U.S. 731 - Dunn v. Reeves

Dunn v. Reeves’s Empirical Analysis

2021

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
4
states following
May 2026
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Appellate journey

reviewedthe decision below (from Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals)

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Atkins v. Virginia · Woodford v. Visciotti

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A] silent record cannot discharge a prisoner's burden.”
    1 later decision 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.