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.
“[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 majoritye.g. Bannister v. Delo“[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 majoritye.g. Bannister v. Delo“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 majoritye.g. Bannister v. Delo
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.