Lopez v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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

1. “The nature of the intervening change of law at issue here [in Lopez ] differs from the situations at issue in [other cases]. Here, it was settled law that post-conviction counsel’s effectiveness was irrelevant to establishing cause for procedural default.... In Martinez, however, the Supreme Court ‘qualifie[d] Coleman by recognizing a narrow exception.’ Unlike the ‘hardly extraordinary’ development of the Supreme Court resolving an existing circuit split [as in] Gonzalez ... the Supreme Court’s development in Martinez constitutes a remarkable — if ‘limited,’ ... development in the Court’s equitable jurisprudence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Barnett v. Roper

2. “six factors that may be considered, among others, to evaluate whether extraordinary circumstances exist.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Riley v. Filson

3. “[T]he claim was a very narrow one and related only to supplemental evidence”

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