Williams-Bey v. Trickey’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 314 · 1990
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2017
10 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 Strickland v. Washington · Vandygriff v. Phillips · Benjamin v. United States · Sea-Land Service, Inc. v. Federal Maritime Commission · Pacemaker Diagnostic Clinic of America, Inc. v. Instromedix, Inc.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an infirmity in a state post-conviction proceeding does not raise a constitutional issue cognizable in a federal habeas petition”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“only on the ground that he is in custody in violation of the constitution or laws of treaties of the United States.”
2 later decisions 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.