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Powers v. State’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
3
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3600 (Innocence Protection Act of 2004) · 42 U.S.C. § 14131 (§ 210303 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 42 U.S.C. § 14132 (§ 210304 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 42 U.S.C. § 14135 · 42 U.S.C. § 14135A

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Jones v. Murray · Owens v. State · United States v. Sczubelek

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. “[t]his proposition does not mean that an ambiguity exists merely because the parties proffer different interpretations of a statute. A party cannot create an ambiguity by presenting a nonsensical or clearly erroneous interpretation of a statute.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “trial court should postulate whatever realistically possible test results would be most favorable to the defendant in determining whether he has established the reasonable probability requirement”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “Y-STR testing permits DNA analysis on the Y-chromosome. Since the Y-chromosome is inherited paternally, all men in the same paternal lineage should have the same Y-chromosome STRs, or 'Y¥-STRs.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.