Hill v. Black’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

21 federal appellate · 1 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “neither [claim] would have justified the Mississippi Supreme Court in applying the exception to the Mississippi contemporaneous objection rule to either allegation of error. Accordingly, the district court erred in granting habeas corpus relief based on the Mississippi Supreme Court's application of the Mississippi procedural bar rule.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Wiley v. Puckett

2. “[t]o establish a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, a defendant must show that his counsel was actually deficient and that he was actually prejudiced by that deficiency.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Prejean v. Smith

3. “the Supreme Court [of Mississippi] regularly applies the contemporaneous objection rule to the cases before it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wiley v. Puckett