Buxton v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
925 F.2d 816 · 1991
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Nichols v. Scott (1995), Fuller v. Johnson (1997)
11 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 · Hill v. Lockhart · Wainwright v. Sykes · Harris v. Reed · Penry v. Lynaugh
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) whether the movant has made a showing of likelihood of success on the merits, (2) whether the movant has made a showing of irreparable injury if the stay is not granted, (3) whether the granting of the stay would substantially harm the other parties, and (4) whether the granting of the stay would serve the public interest.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Howard v. Dretke · Bishop v. Epps“The severity of the penalty in a death penalty case”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“16 Id. (quoting Barefoot v. Estelle, 463 U.S. 880 , 893 n. 4, 103 S.Ct. 3383, 3394 n. 4, 77 L.Ed.2d 1090 (1982)).”
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.