64 Cited authorities

  1. Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Services

    436 U.S. 658 (1978)   Cited 66,814 times   15 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "local government . . . are 'persons'" for purposes of 42 U.S.C. § 1983
  2. Schlup v. Delo

    513 U.S. 298 (1995)   Cited 17,979 times   13 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the actual innocence standard requires a petitioner "to make a stronger showing than that needed to establish prejudice" under Strickland
  3. Papasan v. Allain

    478 U.S. 265 (1986)   Cited 16,628 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Holding that Ex parte Young would not support a suit against a state for ongoing liability for an alleged past breach of trust, since "continuing payment of the income from the lost corpus is essentially equivalent in economic terms to a one-time restoration of the lost corpus itself"
  4. Melendez–Diaz v. Massachusetts

    557 U.S. 305 (2009)   Cited 3,542 times   46 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a certification that material seized by the police included cocaine was testimonial
  5. U.S. v. Gonzalez-Lopez

    548 U.S. 140 (2006)   Cited 2,091 times   13 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a violation of the Sixth Amendment right to counsel of choice does not require showing prejudice
  6. Old Chief v. United States

    519 U.S. 172 (1997)   Cited 3,023 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding that the district court had abused its discretion in admitting the record of conviction when the defendant in that case offered to stipulate to a prior felony conviction
  7. Cuyler v. Sullivan

    446 U.S. 335 (1980)   Cited 5,702 times   19 Legal Analyses
    Holding that prejudice is presumed when a defendant establishes his attorney operated under an actual conflict of interest arising from concurrent representation of multiple clients which adversely affected the attorney's performance
  8. Wheat v. United States

    486 U.S. 153 (1988)   Cited 2,372 times   10 Legal Analyses
    Holding in multiple-representation cases, a district court must help protect criminal defendants against counsel’s conflict of interest
  9. Huddleston v. United States

    485 U.S. 681 (1988)   Cited 2,347 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding that under Rule 104(b), the "court simply examines all the evidence in the case and decides whether the jury could reasonably find the conditional fact . . . by a preponderance of the evidence"
  10. U.S. v. Marcus

    560 U.S. 258 (2010)   Cited 881 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that due process is violated "if the jury ... was not instructed about [a criminal statute's] enactment date" and convicts a defendant for "noncriminal, preenactment conduct"
  11. Rule 803 - Exceptions to the Rule Against Hearsay-Regardless of Whether the Declarant Is Available as a Witness

    Fed. R. Evid. 803   Cited 12,640 times   85 Legal Analyses
    Recognizing exception to rule against hearsay for records of regularly conducted activities