Bashor v. Risley’s Empirical Analysis
730 F.2d 1228 · 1984
Citation profile
134 federal appellate · 13 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 213 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2025 · most notably United States v. Scheffer (1998), Norris v. Risley (1989)
134 federal appellate · 13 district · 10 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 18 U.S.C. § 3006A (Criminal Justice Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 2242 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Haines v. Kerner · Townsend v. Sain · Irvin v. Dowd · Sheppard v. Maxwell
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 213 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conclusory and wholly devoid of specifics.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[f]ailure of a state court to instruct on a lesser offense fails to present a federal constitutional question and will not be considered in a federal habeas corpus proceeding.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our duty as a federal court sitting in habeas corpus is to make an independent review of the record to determine whether there was such a degree of prejudice against the petitioner that a fair trial was impossible.”
4 later decisions 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.