Evans v. Rogerson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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

1. “a federal habeas court may grant the writ if the state court arrives at a conclusion opposite to that reached by this Court on a question of law or if the state court decides a case differently than this Court has on a set of materially indistinguishable facts.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 212 F. Supp. 2d 1105 - Clemons v. Luebbers · Faye Copeland James Washington Faye Copeland James Washington

2. “[A] federal habeas court may not issue the writ simply because that court concludes in its independent judgment that the relevant state-court decision applied clearly established federal law erroneously or incorrectly.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 212 F. Supp. 2d 1105 - Clemons v. Luebbers

3. “the district court put its own spin on the facts and disregarded [the state court's] reasonable view of them”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hoon v. Iowa F