66 F. Supp. 2d 854 - Burdine v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
October 2002
most recently cited
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Edwards v. Arizona · Townsend v. Sain · Chambers v. Mississippi · McMann v. Richardson
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“defense counsel repeatedly dozed and/or actually slept during substantial portions of [Burdine's] capital murder trial”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“These findings of fact were explicitly adopted by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. This Court finds, pursuant to the presumption of correctness standard, that Cannon slept on numerous occasions throughout Burdine's criminal trial and for substantial periods of time. 165 Id. at 865 (emphasis added). 166 The district court failed to note there was no state-finding that the sleeping occurred during”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Burdine v. Johnson“during portions of [Burdine's] trial on the merits, in particular during the guilt-innocence phase when the State's solo prosecutor was questioning witnesses and presenting evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Burdine v. Johnson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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