Wells v. Varner’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
August 2010
most recently cited
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Crawford v. Washington · Schlup v. Delo · Bousley v. United States · McCleskey v. Zant · United States v. Garth
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Wjhether Petitioner has demonstrated his actual innocence of the Pennsylvania Corrupt Organizations Act offense so as to overcome the procedural default of the ineffectiveness of appellate counsel and due process/corrupt organizations offense claims. Commonwealth v. Besch, [ 544 Pa. 1 ] 674 A.2d 655, 659 (1996); Commonwealth v. Shaffer, [ 557 Pa. 453 ] 734 A.2d 840, 841 (1999).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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