Willhoite v. Vasquez’s Empirical Analysis
921 F.2d 247 · 1990
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2014
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on United States v. Bagley · Giglio v. United States · McCleskey v. Kemp · Campbell v. Reed · Charlie Lee Evans v. Robert Raines and Robert K. Corbin
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he obvious generousity of this agreement provided ample opportunity for the defense to challenge, and for the jury to weigh Meyer's credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leon v. Carroll
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.