Phillips v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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

1. “Comity requires that federal courts respect state procedural rules to the extent those rules do not unjustly extinguish rights guaranteed by the federal Constitution.”), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1027 , 104 S.Ct. 1287 , 79 L.Ed.2d 689 (1984). See also Lipsky v. Commonwealth United Corp., 551 F.2d 887, 895 (2d Cir.1976) (we”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. St. Charles Cable TV, Inc. v. Eagle Comtronics, Inc.

2. ““[Ejxplicit state court reliance on a procedural default bars federal habeas review of the forfeited claim absent a showing of cause and prejudice regardless of whether the state court ruled alternatively on the merits of the forfeited claim.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Williams v. Lefevre

3. “[A]n alternative holding has the same force as a single holding; it is binding precedent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Davis v. Allsbrooks