Montoya v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 1 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Montoya ... has not even alleged, much less demonstrated, that a 'miscarriage of justice’ regarding actual innocence or 'actual innocence of the death penalty' could be established in his case. This petition ... may not be considered on its merits.”), cert. denied, 507 U.S. 1002 , 113 S.Ct. 1630 , 123 L.Ed.2d 263 (1993); Harris v. Lindamood, 355 Fed.Appx. 940 , 943 (6th Cir.2009) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Rocha v. Thaler

2. “Unless a petitioner shows cause and prejudice, a federal court may not reach the merits of successive claims, which raise grounds identical to grounds heard and decided on the merits in a previous petition”

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

3. “variant of the issue that the state and federal courts have previously rejected”

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