Miles v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
691 F.3d 1127 · 2012
Citation profile
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 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 · Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · Williams v. Taylor · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Even though Petitioner has now uncovered, during federal habeas proceedings, some new information that was not presented to the state courts during post-conviction review, that evidence is insufficient to demonstrate that his lawyer’s investigation during the state-court proceedings was objectively unreasonable. As detailed above, his counsel conducted an extensive investigation during post-conviction review, obtaining a psychologist to perform further testing and hiring an investigator who visited Petitioner’s home town and interviewed many people who knew him and his mother.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Miles v. Ryan“The court finds that the defendant’s expression of remorse was insufficient to outweigh the aggravating circumstances of this case. No remorse was evidenced when the defendant went to Phoenix, after the murder, in the car of Miss Baeuerlen, to party with his friends. No remorse was evidenced when the defendant was captured by the Phoenix Police. No remorse was evidenced when the defendant, a day after the murder, was able [to] laugh when detailing the murder ... to a boyhood friend in Phoenix.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miles v. Ryan“The court finds that there is no credible evidence that the defendant’s capacity was impaired or that drugs or alcohol had impaired the defendant’s thinking or actions at the time of the crimes in question.... The testimony offered by the defendant, from Doctor Levy, Ph.D., as to impairment, was without adequate foundation, and considered by the court to be without value.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miles v. Ryan
How this case has been treated — in progress
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