Canales v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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

1. “A federal court may consider the merits of a procedurally defaulted claim if the petitioner shows 'cause for the default and prejudice from a violation of federal law.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Murphy v. Davis · Ford v. Davis

2. “courts should not simply ask whether, “after discounting the inculpatory evidence in light of the undisclosed evidence, the remaining evidence is sufficient to support the jury’s conclusions.” Instead, the proper inquiry is whether “the favorable evidence could reasonably be taken to put the whole case in such a different light as to undermine confidence in the verdict.””

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

3. “'When the dismissal is silent, this [c]o'urt looks to the arguments made in state court to try to determine whether the dismissal was based on independent and adequate state law or whether instead it relied on or was interwoven with, federal law.”

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