Mays v. Balkcom’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “failure to include this claim can only be considered inexcusable neglect at best and deliberate withholding of a ground for relief at worst.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Reddie McShane Jr. v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections · Jones v. Wj Estelle

2. “(b) Successive petitions. A second or successive petition may be dismissed if the judge finds that it fails to allege new or different grounds for relief and the prior determination was on the merits or, if new and different grounds are alleged, the judge finds that the failure of the petitioner to assert those grounds in a prior petition constituted an abuse of writ.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Matthews v. Butler

3. “brevity of time spent in consultation, without more, does not establish that counsel was ineffective”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Magill v. Dugger