Valdez v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
2
states following
May 2002
most recently cited
6 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Teague v. Lane · Murray v. Carrier · McCleskey v. Zant · Cooper v. Oklahoma
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) was not recognized or could not have been reasonably formulated from a decision of the United States Supreme Court, a court of appeals of the United States, or a court of appellate jurisdiction of this state on or before [the] date [Petitioner’s direct appeal brief was due], or (b) is a new rule of constitutional law that was given retroactive effect by the United States Supreme Court or a court of appellate jurisdiction of this state ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Neill v. State
How this case has been treated — in progress
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