Kramer v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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

1. “An application for a writ of habeas corpus in behalf of a prisoner who is authorized to apply for relief by motion pursuant to this section, shall not be entertained if it appears that the applicant has failed to apply for relief, by motion, to the court which sentenced him, or that such court has denied him relief, unless it also appears that the remedy by motion is inadequate or ineffective to test the legality of his detention.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 576 F. Supp. 2d 57 - Maldonado-Torres v. Mukasey

2. “[A] Richardson claim is not the sort that will permit passage through the narrow opening of § 2255’s savings clause,”); Sawyer v. Holder, 326 F.3d 1363, 1366 (11th Cir. 2003) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Olee Robinson v. Warden Schuylkill FCI