Moore v. Biter’s Empirical Analysis
742 F.3d 917 · 2014
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Harrington v. Richter · McNeill v. United States · Early v. Packer · Graham v. Florida · Carey v. Musladin
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our Court defies [federal habeas law] once again, this time by failing to distinguish one 'life without parole' sentence from multiple 'term-of-years' sentences. A panel of this Court holds that Graham ... invalidates the latter, ignoring the contrary holding of the Sixth Circuit, disregarding the views of state courts across the country, and flouting Graham 's text and reasoning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“makes clear that the Supreme Court did not squarely address aggregate term-of-years sentences.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Because the Supreme Court explicitly stated that Graham concerned”
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.