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Ellsworth v. Warden, New Hampshire State Prison’s Empirical Analysis

333 F.3d 1 · 2003

Citation profile

71
cited by 71 later decisions
8
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

32 federal appellate · 24 district · 8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Teague v. Lane

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

  1. “resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States,”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “strong evidence of a prior false accusation,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “evidence itself inadmissible could be so promising a lead to strong exculpatory evidence that there could be no justification for withholding it.”). The state courts never directly addressed whether the material in Noel’s or Rodriguez’s affidavits was admissible. The MAC did say, however, that Rodriguez’s affidavit was”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.