Smith v. Cain’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

39 federal appellate · 11 district · 40 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 128 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A reasonable probability does not mean that the defendant 'would more likely than not have received a different verdict with the evidence,' only that the likelihood of a different result is great enough to 'undermine[ ] confidence in the * outcome of the trial.'”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Wearry v. Cain · Williams v. Williams

2. “reasonable probability that, had the evidence been disclosed to the defense, the result of the proceeding would have been different”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Floyd v. Vannoy · United States v. Ausby

3. “testimony was the only evidence linking [the petitioner] to the crime”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Floyd v. Vannoy · Floyd v. Vannoy