Holmes v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
608 F.3d 963 · 2010
Citation profile
5 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Slack v. McDaniel · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Schlup v. Delo
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A state law ground that provides the basis for a state court decision is independent when the court actually relied on the procedural bar as an independent basis for its disposition of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to allow the district court to decide the constitutional issues in the first instance”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Brown
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.