Rudenko v. Costello’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate ·

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. “the district courts are required to render decisions that are at least sufficiently informative to permit meaningful appellate review,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ryan v. Miller · Konstantin Rudenko v. Joseph J. Costello

2. “I call attention to a recent Supreme Court holding that suggests that the Court of Appeals erroneously granted the certificate of appealability in this case because it failed to find as a threshold matter that the underlying petition made a substantial showing of the denial of a constitutional right as required by 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (c). Slack v. McDaniel, 529 U.S. 473 , 483-90, 120 S.Ct. 1595 , 146 L.Ed.2d 542 (2000).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Clanton v. United States

3. “[I]t is my view that there is no basis for concluding that the summary denial of the petition means that the judge “failed to conduct a reasoned method of inquiry into relevant questions of fact and law,” Capellan v. Riley, 975 F.2d 67 , 71 (2d Cir.1992) (internal quotations and citation omitted)....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Clanton v. United States