Henry v. Poole’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions

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

1. “[I]n light of the Strickland principle that an ineffective assistance claim is established if the court concludes that there is a reasonable probability that but for counsel’s professional deficient performance the outcome of the proceeding would have been different, we find it difficult to view so much of the New York rule as holds that “whether defendant would have been acquitted of the charges but for counsel’s errors is ... not dispositive,” as not “contrary to” the prejudice standard established by Strickland .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rosario v. Ercole · Hamilton v. Lee

2. “In sum, the statute directs federal courts to attend to every state-court judgment with utmost care, but it does not require them to defer to the opinion of every reasonable state-court judge on the content of federal law. If, after carefully weighing all the reasons for accepting a state-court’s judgment a federal court is convinced that a prisoner’s custody ... violates the Constitution, that independent judgment should prevail. Otherwise the federal law as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States might be applied by the federal courts one way in Virginia and another way in California.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 376 F. Supp. 2d 306 - Brisco v. Phillips

3. “[u]nder the “contrary to” clause, a federal habeas court may grant the writ [only] if the state court arrives at a conclusion opposite to that reached by [the Supreme] Court on a question of law or if the state court decides a case differently that [the Supreme] Court has on a set of materially indistinguishable facts. Under the “unreasonable application” clause, a federal habeas court may grant the writ if the state court identifies the correct governing legal principle from [the Supreme] Court’s decisions but unreasonably applies that principle to the facts of the prisoner’s case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 410 F. Supp. 2d 101 - Duncan v. Fischer