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272 F.3d 918 · 2001

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
December 2013
most recently cited

8 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Cupp v. Naughten · Henderson v. Kibbe · Whitehead v. Cowan · United States v. Sielaff · Nichols v. Gagnon

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

  1. “We review the district court's findings of fact for clear error and its rulings on issues of law de novo.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “omission, or an incomplete instruction, is less likely to be prejudicial than a misstatement of the law.”
    1 later decision 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.