Bowman v. Armontrout’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate ·

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

1. “consider whether claims of newly discovered evidence may be brought and if so, to take evidence on those claims. There is no indication from the Eighth Circuit that these claims of newly discovered evidence should be treated any differently than other such claims similarly situated.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bowman v. Gammon

2. “Appellant's motion for remand to the district court for evidentiary hearing on newly discovered evidence is granted. The case is remanded to the district court with directions to conduct further proceedings on the issue of newly discovered evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bowman v. Gammon

3. “[b]ecause of the peculiar nature of Mr. Lytle's testimony and the way in which the jury must have considered it, ... the additional evidence could not have affected the judgment of the jury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bowman v. Gammon