Amos v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
61 F.3d 333 · 1995
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 140 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Billy George Hughes v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice,institutional Division (1999), Dennis Thurl Dowthitt v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division (2000)
53 federal appellate · 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Coleman v. Thompson · Giglio v. United States · Townsend v. Sain
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 140 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'strictly or regularly followed by the cognizant state court ... [and] strictly or regularly applied evenhandedly to the vast majority of similar claims .'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fratta v. Davis · Hogue v. Johnson“can demonstrate cause for the default and actual prejudice as a result of the alleged violation of federal law, or demonstrate that failure to consider the claims will result in a fundamental miscarriage of justice.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an occasional act of grace by a state court in excusing or disregarding a state procedural rule does not render the rule inadequate.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Martin v. Maxey · Fratta 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.