Neuschafer v. McKay’s Empirical Analysis
807 F.2d 839 · 1987
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2000 · most notably Moran v. Godinez (1995), Neuschafer v. Whitley (1988)
20 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 Edwards v. Arizona · Townsend v. Sain · Sumner v. Mata · Oregon v. Bradshaw · Wainwright v. Goode
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the district court was presented with conflicting, or at least inconsistent, conclusions by two state courts on the critical point in the case. It could not render a decision on the record before it without second-guessing at least one state tribunal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Coleman v. Risley“My belief is that a remand will only delay the conclusion of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.