Floyd v. Meachum’s Empirical Analysis
907 F.2d 347 · 1990
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 128 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Tankleff v. Da Senkowski (1998), Bossett v. Walker (1994)
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 11 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Young · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo · Darden v. Wainwright · Malloy v. Hogan · Carnegie v. United States
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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“literally dozens of times throughout her opening and closing summations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“not so prejudicial that a new trial is required,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The appropriate standard of review for a claim of prosecutorial misconduct on a writ of habeas corpus is the narrow one of due process, and not the broad exercise of supervisory power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.