Williamson v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
936 F.2d 1000 · 1991
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Bannister v. Armontrout (1993), O'Rourke v. Endell (1998)
15 federal appellate · 3 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Sykes · Rose v. Lundy · Delaware v. New York
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] state court's interpretation of state law is binding upon a federal court in a habeas proceeding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he petitioner's failure to pursue his or her claim in a state post-conviction appeal results in a procedural bar to federal habeas corpus relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. O'Rourke v. Endell
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.