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Caudill v. Conover’s Empirical Analysis

881 F.3d 454 · 2018

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
May 2025
most recently cited

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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · Batson v. Kentucky · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Darden v. Wainwright

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

  1. “There comes a point at which evidence from more distant relatives can reasonably be expected to be only cumulative, and the search for it distractive from more important duties.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “to identify and interview distant relatives, former childhood neighbors, past boyfriends, and acquaintances who would provide similar information.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “from those closest to Van Hook's upbringing and the experts who reviewed his history,”
    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.