Parker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a three-phase process, the first phase involving the filing of the application and the assessment of its sufficiency to set out a prima facie case for relief, the second phase involving discovery and review for genuine issues of material fact, and the third involving the evidentiary hearing and formal resolution of disputed facts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gyles v. State

2. “In effect, Parker [takes] the position that, absent an affirmative explanation for his trial counsel's election to forego presenting character witnesses, his trial counsel's performance should be deemed incompetent. This position misallocates the applicable burden of proof and [it] has been squarely rejected.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Allen v. State

3. “If the record ... is silent with regard to an issue and the witnesses are unable to remember, the state has not failed to substantiate its case; to the contrary, the prisoner has failed in his collateral attack on the judgment of conviction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Allen v. State