Newbury v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 federal appellate ·

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

1. “already received all of the relief available to him under the authority of Martinez and Trevino , that is, review of the merits by a federal court, it is not necessary for us to remand the case to the district court to determine whether Newbury’s state habeas counsel was ineffective or whether his [IAC] claim has ‘some merit’ under Martinez. All that we need to determine is whether reasonable jurists would find debatable the district court’s decision that Newbury’s [IAC] claim lacks merit under Strickland .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Gilmar Guevara v. William Stephens, Director

2. “state a valid claim of the denial of a constitutional right”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 677 F. App'x 884 - Edward Busby v. Lorie Davis, Director

3. “of the same genre as that presented to the jury at trial”

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