Wetzel v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions

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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In this case, however, the Third Circuit overlooked the determination of the state courts that the notations were, as the District Court put it, “not exculpatory or impeaching” but instead “entirely ambiguous.” Instead, the Third Circuit focused solely on the alternative ground that any impeachment value that might have been obtained from the notations would have been cumulative. If the conclusion in the state courts about the content of the document was reason able — not necessarily correct, but reasonable — whatever those courts had to say about cumulative impeachment evidence would be beside the point.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Lewis v. Commissioner of Correction