Harris v. Nebraska’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * (A)n indigent state prisoner does not have an absolute or unconditional right to receive a free transcript or other records arising from his state criminal’ proceedings for the purpose of collateral attack in the state courts, but must first allege in his motion to vacate or other tendered documents facts which show that he has been deprived at some point in the past criminal proceedings of a constitutional right which the post-conviction remedy is designed to protect. He has no right to demand a free transcript or other papers for the purpose of learning whether some constitutional right was violated.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Chavez v. Sigler

2. ““ * * * (W)hether an indigent state prisoner has a constitutionally secured right to obtain a copy of certain legal documents and records for the expressed intent of collaterally attacking his conviction by following the procedure required under Nebraska’s post-conviction statute, without first setting out facts in his petition for post-conviction relief which support a claim that constitutional rights were infringed.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Chavez v. Sigler