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← 82 F.3d 781 - Williams v. Delo

Williams v. Delo’s Empirical Analysis

82 F.3d 781 · 1996

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
May 2006
most recently cited

1 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Relies on Schlup v. Delo · McCleskey v. Zant · Sawyer v. Whitley · Delo v. Stokes · Flieger v. Delo

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[n]ot only is this claim abusive, but [petitioner] cannot show a due process violation because the Missouri Supreme Court conducted a reasoned review of his sentence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[w]e cannot look behind the Missouri Supreme Court's conclusion or consider whether that court misinterpreted the Missouri statute requiring proportionality reviews.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “because about two hundred Missouri capital murder cases were not in the files the court used to review the proportionality of [his] sentence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.