Mitchell v. Hopper’s Empirical Analysis

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14 federal appellate · 1 district · 3 state decisions

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

1. “go so far as to label [Spencer's default] a purposeful relinquishment of the issue.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Spencer v. Kemp · Spencer v. Zant

2. “prepared to present the same or similar evidence they claimed they could not present at the state level, and do this despite the denial of a similar request for money in this Court.... While the issue need not be reviewed in detail in light of the conclusions mandated by the Spinkellink case, the Court will note the fact of petitioner's [sic] ability to present evidence here when faced with the same purported lack of funds they faced during state proceedings casts the failure to present that evidence in the courts of Georgia in the light of strategic default.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Spencer v. Zant

3. “[w]hile Mr. Ruffin's rather cryptic statement might be read to imply a waiver, the statement seems to express, when taken at face value, the simple idea that counsel was not going to belabor a motion he felt had been ruled on.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Spencer v. Zant