Hill v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
932 F.2d 369 · 1991
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Andrews v. Collins (1994), Harmon v. Ryan (1992)
13 federal appellate · 1 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 Wainwright v. Sykes · Gregg v. Georgia · Teague v. Lane · Murray v. Carrier · Furman v. Georgia
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here, as here, a claim turns on an application of state law rather than federal law, this court must give deference to the articulation by the state's highest court of how the state law applies to the facts of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lincecum v. Collins“rational juror, given all the facts, [could acquit him] of capital murder and convict[ ] him of a lesser included offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Andrews v. Collins“to anticipate a state appellate court's willingness to reconsider a prior holding”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meanes v. Johnson
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.