Aeid v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the `counsel' guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rosario v. Ercole · Eze v. Senkowski

2. “when a state court fails to articulate the rationale underlying its rejection of a petitioner's claim, and when that rejection is on the merits, the federal court will focus its review on whether the state court's ultimate decision was an `unreasonable application' of clearly established Supreme Court precedent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Eze v. Senkowski

3. “state courts summarily rejected [habeas petitioner's] ineffective assistance of counsel claim without explanation, we must focus on the ultimate decisions of those courts, rather than on the courts' reasoning”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cox v. Donnelly