Woods v. Whitley’s Empirical Analysis
933 F.2d 321 · 1991
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2010 · most notably Christy v. Horn (1997), Sones v. Hargett (1995)
20 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
Relies on Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · Adams v. Williams · United States v. Frady · Stone v. Powell
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In procedural default cases, the cause standard requires the petitioner to show that “some objective factor external to the defense impeded counsel’s efforts” to raise the claim in state court. Objective factors that constitute cause include “ ‘interference by officials’” that makes compliance with the state’s procedural rule impracticable, and “a showing that the factual or legal basis for a claim was not reasonably available to counsel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. James v. Cain“[a]lthough this case was decided by the district court prior to the issuance of McCleskey, the procedure the court followed and the result it reached comport with that case”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hudson v. Whitley“There is no reason to infer that McCleskey changed our previous rule that abuse of the writ may be pleaded by the state or raised by the district court sua sponte”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Williams v. Whitley
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.