Jones v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
778 F.3d 575 · 2015
Citation profile
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Pennsylvania v. Finley · 197 Ill. 2d 239 - People v. Edwards · 142 Ill. 2d 204 - People v. Steidl
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]e cannot say that [the witness’] testimony would have altered the outcome even if the impeachment had been perfected”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. United States v. Roy
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.