Herrera v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
954 F.2d 1029 · 1992
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2013 · most notably Herrera v. Collins (1993), Lucas v. Johnson (1998)
11 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
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Townsend v. Sain · McCleskey v. Zant · Barefoot v. Estelle · Blackledge v. Allison
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 31 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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the existence merely of newly discovered evidence relevant to the guilt of a state prisoner is not a ground for relief on federal habeas corpus.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is well established that claims of newly discovered evidence, casting doubt on the petitioner's guilt, are not cognizable in federal habeas corpus.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bryant v. Scott
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.