Ayala v. Wong’s Empirical Analysis
756 F.3d 656 · 2013
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2023
5 federal appellate ·
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 · Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · Chapman v. State of California · Batson v. Kentucky
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In holding that Ayala has demonstrated his entitlement to relief under Brecht , we therefore also hold to be an unreasonable application of Chapman the California Supreme Court's conclusion that Ayala was not prejudiced by the exclusion of the defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Davis v. Ayala“that a state court’s determination in favor of petitioner cannot be relitigated on habeas review” and thus should not be reviewed at all. Id. Because we conclude that federal constitutional error occurred under de novo review — the most”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Certainly with reference to whether or not he would get along with 12 people, it may well be that he would get along very well with 12 people. I think the other observations of counsel are accurate and borne out by the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Davis v. Ayala
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.