Alverson v. Workman’s Empirical Analysis

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7 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If a claim was addressed on the merits by the state courts, we may not grant federal habeas relief on the basis of that claim unless the state court decision “was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States,” or “was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts in light of the evidence presented in the State court proceeding.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 460 F. App'x 782 - Kirby v. King

2. “In the federal habeas context, a cumulative-error analysis aggregates all constitutional errors found to be harmless and analyzes whether their cumulative effect on the outcome of the trial is such that collectively they can no longer be determined to be harmless.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Cuesta-Rodriguez v. Carpenter

3. “a state court’s decision to raise and answer a constitutional question sua sponte will also permit subsequent federal habeas review”), and concluding that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. French v. Carter