Fagan v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

71 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “His lawyer failed to raise either [meritorious] claim, instead raising weaker claims. . . . No tactical reason -no reason other than oversight or incompetence -has been or can be assigned for the lawyer's failure to raise the only substantial claims that [defendant] had.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mayo v. Henderson · Ernest Sutton Bell v. Mack Jarvis Robert Smith

2. “The law of habeas corpus is subtle and intricate; mistakes are easy to make. But it is a body of law which the lawyers employed by a state attorney general should be masters. Failing to achieve such mastery, they should hot blame federal judges for springing dangerous criminals free to prey on the citizenry whose safety the attorney general is sworn to protect.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Burdine v. Johnson

3. ““The group had vowed revenge. Their scheme encompassed the murder of anyone whom they believed to be a Vice Lord (whether or not he really was). Their common design embraced the killing of Billy Green on the sidewalk in front of the game room by any member of the group. But not by a non-member.” Fagan, 942 F.2d at 1160 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 313 Ill. App. 3d 510 - People v. Thompson