Burton Donald Woods, III v. Bill Armontrout, Acting Warden’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2001
11 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Townsend v. Sain · Brady v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Rose v. Lundy
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“implicit in the trial court's determination that [Williams] made his confession voluntarily is a finding that the police officers did not induce the confession by either coercion or promises,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Clarke“state-court findings on such matters are conclusive on the habeas court if fairly supported in the record”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Clarke
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.