Bonin v. Calderon’s Empirical Analysis
77 F.3d 1155 · 1996
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Ortiz v. Stewart (1998), Moran v. E.k. McDaniel (1996)
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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. § 1343 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Coleman v. Thompson · Gregg v. Georgia · Murray v. Carrier · Estelle v. McGuire · Sandin v. Conner
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“some objective factor external to the defense impeded counsel's efforts to raise the claim”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“actual prejudice resulting from the errors of which he complains”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“would result in a miscarriage of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.