Fay v. Ol McCotter’s Empirical Analysis
765 F.2d 475 · 1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2024
4 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 Wainwright v. Witt · Arizona v. Washington · Marshall v. Lonberger · United States v. Josef Perez · United States of America Ex Rel. Keith Webb v. Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, the District Attorney of Philadelphia County
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the trial judge 'is in the best position to assess all the factors which must be considered in making a necessarily discretionary determination' of whether a deadlock exists, the judge's findings must be 'accorded great deference by a reviewing court.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Green v. Johnson
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.