Porter v. Zook’s Empirical Analysis
898 F.3d 408 · 2018
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2022
1 federal appellate ·
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.
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Giglio v. United States · Townsend v. Sain · Kyles v. Whitley
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]t no place in the motion [to appoint the risk assessment expert Dr. Cunningham] d[id] [Porter] proffer that Dr. Cunningham's statistical analysis of a projected prison environment will focus on the particular facts of his history and background.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Lawlor v. Zook“to obtain a new trial based on McDonough bias: first, that the juror in question 'failed to answer honestly a material question on voir dire ,' and second, 'that a correct response would have provided a valid basis for a challenge for cause.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scott v. Arnold“[t]o prove a juror bias claim under McDonough , the petitioner must show: (1) 'a juror failed to answer honestly a material question on voir dire ,' and (2) 'a correct response would have provided a valid basis for a challenge for cause'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Scott v. Arnold
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.