Butler v. O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
663 F.3d 514 · 2011
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district ·
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1368 · 18 U.S.C. § 2252A (§ 101 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 30 U.S.C. § 820
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Lindh v. Murphy · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Kolender v. Lawson · Ward v. Rock Against Racism
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his is a highly deferential standard for evaluating state-court rulings, which demands that state-court decisions be given the benefit of the doubt, and that the defendant seeking habeas show that the state court’s ruling on the claim being presented in federal court was so lacking in justification that there was an error well understood and comprehended in existing law beyond any possibility for fairminded disagreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lyons v. Brady“the residual clause of the Armed Career Criminal Act’s definition of `violent felony,’ which reads, `otherwise involves conduct that presents a serious potential risk of physical injury to another,’ is not unconstitutionally vague or `so indefinite as to prevent an ordinary person from understanding what conduct it prohibits.’”
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.