State v. Houston’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 federal appellate · 30 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “known as the `watershed rule' exception, applies when the new rule `requires the observance of those procedures that * * * are implicit in the concept of ordered liberty' or `alter our understanding of the bedrock procedural elements that must be found to vitiate the fairness of any particular conviction.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Danforth v. State

2. “We are hard-pressed to see how a rule that, when violated, merely requires re-sentencing can be said to be one without which the likelihood of an accurate conviction is seriously diminished.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Smart

3. “whether `reasonable jurists hearing petitioner's claim at *Page 459 the time his conviction became final would have felt compelled by existing precedent to rule in his favor.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Danforth v. State