Matusiak v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
786 F.2d 536 · 1986
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Lambert v. Blodgett (2004), Reilly v. United States (1988)
19 federal appellate · 2 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)
Relies on Boykin v. Alabama · Johnson v. Zerbst · Picard v. Connor · Dusky v. United States · Miller v. Fenton
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“affirmative showing that [the plea] was intelligent and voluntary.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"In any proceeding instituted in a Federal Court by an application for a writ of habeas corpus by a person in custody pursuant to the judgement of a State court, a determination after a hearing on the merits of a factual issue, made by a State court of competent jurisdiction ... shall be presumed to be correct, unless ... "(8) ... the Federal court ... concludes that such factual determination is not supported by the record as a whole.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Coronado v. Lefevre
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.