Cuevas v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If a defendant perceives a constitutional claim and believes it may find favor in the federal courts, he may not bypass the state courts simply because he thinks they will be unsympathetic to the claim.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Selva Ge v. Collins · Selvage v. Collins

2. “of a death sentence.... Demonstrating that an error is by its nature the kind of error that might have affected the accuracy of a death sentence is far from demonstrating that an individual defendant probably is”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Bird v. Collins

3. “The question is not whether subsequent legal developments have made counsel's task easier, but whether at the time of the default the claim was 'available' at all?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Skelton v. Whitley