Gover v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
698 F.3d 295 · 2012
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Williams v. Taylor · Crawford v. Washington · Kotteakos v. United States · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Brecht v. Abrahamson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Given the fact that there was precedent at the time that providing background to a police investigation through out-of-court statements was a permissible nonhearsay purpose, we must conclude that it was not unreasonable. It is certainly within the large scope of conclusions 'fairminded jurists' could reach, even if others disagreed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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