May v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
955 F.2d 299 · 1992
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Byrd v. Collins (2000), Amos v. Scott (1995)
24 federal appellate · 3 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 · Coleman v. Thompson · Giglio v. United States · Townsend v. Sain · Murray v. Carrier
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is necessary to examine in each case whether a paper hearing is appropriate to the resolution of the factual disputes underlying the petitioner's claim.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it is clear that Sec. 2254(d) does not preclude a federal court from presuming the correctness of factfindings made from a paper record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[r]ecanting affidavits and witnesses are viewed with extreme suspicion by the courts.”
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.