Graham v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 federal appellate · 3 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In our habeas corpus consideration of the introduction of false or mistaken testimony, the question of error turns not on the witness' knowledge of falsity, but on the government 's knowledge.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Leslie Keith Kimball v. Michael A. Nelson, Warden, El Dorado Correctional Facility and Attorney General of Kansas · Farrar v. Raemisch

2. “overwhelming and not subject to any reasonable doubt by the impeachment or elimination of [the witness'] testimony.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Reid · United States v. Lloyd Michael Reid

3. ““[T]he decision to label an issue a ‘question of law/ a ‘question of fact/ or a ‘mixed question of law and fact’ is sometimes as much a matter of allocation as it is of analysis. [Citation omitted]. At least in those instances in which Congress has not spoken and in which the issue falls somewhere between a pristine legal standard and a simple historical fact, the fact/law distinction at times has turned on a determination that, as a matter of the sound administration of justice, one judicial actor is better positioned than another to decide the issue in question.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Case v. Mondragon