Rhoades v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 federal appellate · 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An evidentiary hearing in federal habeas proceedings is required (1) where the merits of a factual dispute were not resolved in state hearings ... (3) the state’s fact-finding procedure was not adequate to afford a full and fair hearing; ... (5) material -facts were not adequately developed at the state court.hearing, for which there is no cause or prejudice; or (6) for any reason it appears that the state trier of fact did not afford the applicant a full and fair hearing on the facts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Burton v. Davis

2. “Even the more complete picture portrayed in the proffer of Rhoades's dysfunctional family with its alcoholism, abuse, aberrant sexual behavior, and criminal conduct does not depict a life history of Rhoades himself that is nightmarish as it was for the petitioners in cases such as Rompilla , Wiggins , and Williams ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Theodore Wash. v. Ryan

3. “`[T]here is no authority for the proposition that the government's Brady obligations require it to point the defense to specific documents with[in] a larger mass of material that it has already turned over.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 171 Wash. 2d 881 - State v. Mullen