Stallings v. Bobby’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate ·

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

1. “(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; or (2) resulted in a decision that was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceeding.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Harrison v. Motley · 471 F. App'x 437 - Eric Cook v. Keith Smith

2. “Prior to Crawford , a hearsay statement was considered admissible for purposes of the Confrontation Clause if the statement bore “adequate ‘indicia of reliability,’ ” which could be inferred if the evidence fell “within a firmly rooted hearsay exception.” Ohio v. Roberts, 448 U.S. 56, 66 , 100 S.Ct. 2531 , 65 L.Ed.2d 597 (1980). In 1999, a plurality of the Supreme Court held that “accomplices’ confessions that inculpate a criminal defendant are not within a firmly rooted exception to the hearsay rule as that concept has been defined in our Confrontation Clause jurisprudence.” Lilly v. Virginia, 527 U.S. 116, 134 , 119 S.Ct. 1887 , 144 L.Ed.2d 117 (1999) (footnote omitted). In doing so, the Court said: “It is clear that our cases consistently have viewed an accomplice’s statements that shift or spread the blame to a criminal defendant as falling outside the realm of those ‘hearsay exception[s] [that are] so trustworthy that adversarial testing can be expected to add little to [the statements’] reliability.’” Id. at 133, 119 S.Ct. 1887 (alteration in original) (quoting White v. Illinois, 502 U.S. 346, 357 , 112 S.Ct. 736 , 116 L.Ed.2d 848 (1992)); see also Williamson v. United States, 512 U.S. 594, 599 , 114 S.Ct. 2431 , 129 L.Ed.2d 476 (1994) (“that a person is making a broadly self-inculpatory confession does not make more credible the confession’s non-self-inculpatory parts”).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hawkins v. Ganshimer