Eley v. Erickson’s Empirical Analysis
712 F.3d 837 · 2013
Citation profile
8 federal appellate ·
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2241 (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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · Williams v. Taylor · In the Matter of Samuel Winship
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although we are mindful of the deference that we owe to the Commonwealth's courts, we are constrained to conclude that fairminded jurists could not disagree that the Superior Court's decision is inconsistent with Richardson and Gray . We have no doubt that the jury inferred, on the basis of Eiland's confession alone, that Eley was one of 'the other two' whose 'idea' it was to rob DeJesus. ... Indeed, a juror who wondered to whom 'the other two' referred ... 'need[ed] only lift his eyes to [Eley and Mitchell], sitting at counsel table, to find what ... seem[ed] the obvious answer,' Gray , 523 U.S. at 193 , 118 S.Ct. 1151 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“unless it is shown that the earlier state court’s decision “was contrary to” federal law then clearly established in the holdings of [the United States Supreme] Court, [28 U.S.C] § 2254(d)(Z); Williams v. Taylor, 529 U.S. 362, 412 , 120 S.Ct. 1945 [1495], 146 L.Ed.2d 389 (2000); or that it “involved an unreasonable application of’ such law, § 2254(d)(1); or that it “was based on an unreasonable determination of the facts” in light of the record before the state court, § 2254(d)(2).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“came close to endorsing a bright-line rule that when terms like 'my boy,' the ‘other guy,’ or the ‘other man' are used to substitute for an actual name in a statement admitted at trial there cannot be a Bruton violation” and holding that, although such terms will”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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