Worthington v. Roper’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 federal appellate · 4 district ·

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

1. “AEDPA’s requirement that a petitioner’s claim be adjudicated on the merits by a state court is not an entitlement to a well-articulated or even a correct decision by a state court. Accordingly, the postconvietion trial court’s discussion of counsel’s performance — combined with its express determination that the ineffective — assistance claim as a whole lacked merit — plainly suffices as an adjudication on the merits under AEDPA.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lotter v. Houston

2. “AEDPA’s requirement that a petitioner’s claim be adjudicated on the merits by a state court is not an entitlement to a well-articulated or even a correct decision by a state court. Accordingly, the postconviction trial court’s discussion of counsel’s performance-combined with its express determination that the ineffective-assistance claim as a whole lacked merit-plainly suffices as an adjudication on the merits under AEDPA.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 233 F. Supp. 3d 733 - DeJong v. Nebraska

3. “A state court 'unreasonably applies' Supreme Court precedent if it 'identifies the correct governing legal principle from th[e] [Supreme] Court's decisions but unreasonably applies that principle to the facts of the prisoner's case.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ervin v. Bowersox