Corcoran v. Neal’s Empirical Analysis
783 F.3d 676 · 2015
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Lockett v. Ohio · Ring v. Arizona · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Maynard v. Cartwright · Skipper v. South Carolina
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Unreasonable' in [the AEDPA] context means more than just incorrect; it means something ... lying well outside the boundaries of permissible differences of opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Felton v. Bartow“other circumstances appropriate for consideration.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Laux v. Zatecky
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.