Green v. Groose’s Empirical Analysis
959 F.2d 708 · 1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Estelle v. McGuire · United States v. Alaska · White v. Illinois · Blackmon v. White
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Other] circuits... have held that the failure of a state court to instruct on a lesser included offense in a non-capital case never raises a federal constitutional question. We agree that the failure to give a lesser included offense instruction in a non-capital case rarely, if ever, presents a constitutional question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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