Lindh v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
96 F.3d 856 · 1996
Citation profile
262 federal appellate · 19 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 572 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Williams v. Taylor (2000), Lindh v. Murphy (1997)
262 federal appellate · 19 district · 5 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Erie Co v. Tompkins · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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 572 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(d) An application for a writ of habeas corpus on behalf of a person in custody pursuant to the judgment of a State court shall not be granted with respect to any claim that was adjudicated on the merits in State court proceedings unless the adjudication of the claim— (1) resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States; or (2) resulted in a decision that was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceeding.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hampton v. Page · Jeffries v. Wood“was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceeding.”
11 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.