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Henness v. Bagley’s Empirical Analysis

644 F.3d 308 · 2011

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
3
states following
March 2025
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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

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

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

  1. “An officer may rely on a complaint made by an individual whose name the officer does not know, but who made the complaint in open view of the officer. This case is fundamentally different from Northrop , because unlike a faceless telephone communication from out of the blue, a face-to-face encounter can afford police the ability to assess many of the elements that are relevant to determining whether information is sufficiently reliable to warrant police action.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “an in-person informant's proximity in time and space to the reported criminal activity indicates the reliability of the tip, because it reflects that the informant acquired the information firsthand.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[a]n officer may rely on a complaint made by an individual whose name the officer does not know, but who made the complaint in open view of the officer,”
    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.