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← 90 F. Supp. 2d 384 - Washington v. Schriver

90 F. Supp. 2d 384 - Washington v. Schriver’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
October 2008
most recently cited

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Davis v. Alaska · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Estelle v. McGuire

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

  1. “credibility (the jury's assessment of whether a witness is telling the truth) and reliability (whether the witness's perception or memory is accurate).”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Jeffrey Washington v. Sunny Schriver, Superintendent, Wallkill Correctional Facility · Jeffrey Washington v. Sunny Schriver, Superintendent, Wallkill Correctional Facility
  2. “unable to point to any [federal cases] that find a failure to [admit expert testimony on children's suggestibility] to be constitutional error.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Jeffrey Washington v. Sunny Schriver, Superintendent, Wallkill Correctional Facility · Jeffrey Washington v. Sunny Schriver, Superintendent, Wallkill Correctional Facility
  3. “[i]n the final analysis, federal habeas review must be governed by the holding of the state court not the form of its articulation.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Jeffrey Washington v. Sunny Schriver, Superintendent, Wallkill Correctional Facility · Jeffrey Washington v. Sunny Schriver, Superintendent, Wallkill Correctional Facility

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.