Williams v. Chrans’s Empirical Analysis
894 F.2d 928 · 1990
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably Prihoda v. McCaughtry (1990), United States Simmons v. Gramley (1990)
20 federal appellate · 2 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.
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Bruton v. United States · Wainwright v. Sykes · Delaware v. Van Arsdall
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in custody in violation of the Constitution or laws or treaties of the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When a state court relies explicitly upon a state procedural default rule in declining to review a federal question, a federal court sitting in habeas corpus jurisdiction must accept that determination as an 'adequate and independent' state ground for decision of the issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“could rationally conclude that a person who committed three crimes of violence against another person has demonstrated either an unwillingness or an inability to reform.”
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.