Woolley v. Rednour’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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

1. “The proper standard of materiality [of an alleged Brady omission] must reflect our overriding concern with the justice of the finding of guilt. Such a finding is permissible only if supported by evidence establishing guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. It necessarily follows that if the omitted evidence creates a reasonable doubt that did not otherwise exist, constitutional error has been committed. This means that the omission must be evaluated in the context of the entire record.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Jimenez v. City of Chicago

2. “Though we often defer to an attorney’s calculated decision to forgo a certain trial strategy, it is undisputed that there was no strategic rationale underlying these errors.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Vinyard v. United States

3. “contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Felton v. Bartow