Mertz v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
771 F.3d 1035 · 2014
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · United States v. Munsingwear, Inc. · Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret · Harrington v. Richter
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]rguments in a federal habeas petition which were not raised in the district court are not properly raised for the first time on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Felton v. Bartow
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.