Walls v. Buss’s Empirical Analysis
658 F.3d 1274 · 2011
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Powers v. Ohio · Harrington v. Richter · McNeill v. United States
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e have recognized that it can be reasonable to let incriminating evidence come to the jury's attention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Brewster v. Hetzel
How this case has been treated — in progress
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