Anderson v. Mullin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 federal appellate · 3 district · 4 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “applies in two scenarios: first, where the state court identifies the correct governing legal rule from the Supreme Court’s cases but unreasonably applies it to the facts ...; second, where the state court either unreasonably extends a legal principle from Supreme Court precedent to a new context where it should not apply or unreasonably refuses to extend that principle to a new context where it should apply.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Carter v. Ward

2. “reversal implied nothing with respect to the defendant's guilt or innocence of second degree burglary, since [that court] limited its finding of insufficient evidence to the element distinguishing first and second degree burglary.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In Re LL

3. “begins and ends with the holdings ... of the Supreme Court's decisions as of the time of the relevant state-court decision”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Parker v. Scott