Kuehne v. Hogan’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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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. “[t]he fact of his guilt was previously determined when he was convicted of the criminal charges, and [the defendant] is therefore barred from asserting a collateral civil claim where actual innocence is an essential element.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fuller v. Partee · Juan v. Growe

2. “[w]hile Missouri cases rejecting malpractice claims against a criminal defendant's trial counsel have been decided, in part, based on the principles of collateral estoppel, those cases also emphasize public policy concerns associated with such claims.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Juan v. Growe

3. “found that where the plaintiff had been convicted of a crime and thereafter sued his trial counsel for malpractice, factual innocence of the criminal charge was an indispensable element of his cause of action.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Juan v. Growe