Bowman v. Gammon’s Empirical Analysis
85 F.3d 1339 · 1996
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Carriger v. Stewart (1997), Jon Keith Smith v. Michael Groose Missouri Attorney General (2000)
14 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Nebraska District Court)
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · United States v. Agurs · Townsend v. Sain · Schlup v. Delo · McCleskey v. Zant
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] petitioner who raises a gateway claim of actual innocence must satisfy a two-part test. First, the petitioner’s allegations of constitutional error must be supported with new rehable evidence that was not presented at trial. Second, the petitioner must establish that it is more likely than not that no reasonable juror would have convicted him in the light of the new evidence. The actual innocence exception requires review of procedurally barred, abusive, or successive claims only in the narrowest type of case — when a fundamental miscarriage of justice would otherwise result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Weeks v. Bowersox“only thing 'new' at this time is that petitioner's counsel has read the testimony in a new light”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bannister v. Delo“must allege facts which, if proved, would entitle him to relief[.]”
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.