754 F. Supp. 646 - Schiro v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Brady v. State of Maryland · Chapman v. State of California · Illinois v. Gates
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . guilty of Murder while the said Thomas N. Schiro was committing and attempting the crime of rape as charged in Count II of the information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“. . . guilty while . . . committing and attempting to commit the crime of criminal deviate conduct as charged in Count III of the information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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