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702 F.3d 103 · 2012

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
April 2025
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Sykes · Murray v. Carrier · United States v. Frady · Grupo Mexicano Desarrollos v. Alliance Bond Fund Inc

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

  1. “unless there is certification, the state courts [would be] substantially deprived of the opportunity to define state law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “state law questions only arise in disputes governed exclusively by federal law, such as bankruptcy or copyright,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent

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.