Garner v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
908 F.3d 845 · 2018
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Hill v. Lockhart · Harris v. Reed · Blackledge v. Allison
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The prejudice inquiry is therefore ineluctably tied to the strength of the prosecution's evidence. A verdict or conclusion with ample record support is less likely to have been affected by the errors of counsel than a verdict or conclusion only weakly supported by the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“anything close to a substantial likelihood of a different result”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in the absence of the alleged deficiencies in representation”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.