Vega v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
757 F.3d 960 · 2014
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
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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 · Williams v. Taylor · Kotteakos v. United States
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.
“state court's findings that [a witness's] testimony would have been cumulative and would have had no effect on the verdict”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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