Kennaugh v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

36 federal appellate · 8 district · 2 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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(1) resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States; or (2) resulted in a decision that was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceeding.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Parsad v. Greiner · Spears v. Greiner

2. “to extend a clearly established, Supreme Court defined, legal principle to situations which that principle should have, in reason, governed.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Sevencan v. Herbert · 277 F. Supp. 2d 280 - Boddie v. New York State Division of Parole

3. “A state determination may be set aside under this standard if, under clearly established federal law, the state court was unreasonable in refusing to extend the governing legal principle to a context in which the principle should have controlled.”); Karnaugh v. Millar, 289 F.3d 36 (2d Cir.2002) (”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Tomlin v. McKune · United States v. Brown