Wilson v. McMacken’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 216 · 1986
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Keating v. Secretary of Health & Human Services (1988), Smith
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 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) · 28 U.S.C. § 636
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · Thomas v. Arn · Engle v. Isaac · Sumner v. Mata
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“state supreme court' to judge whether the judge erred under state law. Shaw v. Boney, 695 F.2d 528 , 530 (11th Cir. 1983).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackman v. Rees“Rather, our task is to determine whether the violation rises to the level of a constitutional wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Vunetich v. Parke“In a federal habeas corpus proceeding such as this one, we do not sit as a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jackman v. Rees
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.