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Goudy v. Basinger’s Empirical Analysis

604 F.3d 394 · 2010

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
May 2025
most recently cited

9 federal appellate ·

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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Williams v. Taylor · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs

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

  1. “The jury heard five witnesses say they saw Goudy firing a gun into McCloud's car, but four of them did not agree on Goudy's height, which side of the car he was on, whether he wore a hat and whether he wore a dark jacket and jeans or a full brown work uniform.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “'positively and without hesitation' identified Harvell as the gunman on the driver's side of McCloud's car, and said he wore brown clothing.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “reasonable probability standard for materiality ... is less rigorous than a preponderance of the evidence standard.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.