Bird v. Hurst’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
April 2018
most recently cited
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · Coleman v. Thompson · Murray v. Carrier · United States v. Frady
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“firmly established and regularly followed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bickham v. Winn
How this case has been treated — in progress
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