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7 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 26 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from United States v. Martinez-Larraga.

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1 United States v. Martinez-Larraga Anchor
ca5 · 2008
green “we, and other circuits, have continued to recognize this 'open the door' or 'reply' exception to doyle, while likewise recognizing that it does not permit the prosecution to argue that the jury should infer the defendant's guilt directly from his post arrest silence.” 4
2 Wainwright v. Greenfield
scotus · 1986
green “doyle and subsequent cases have thus made clear that breaching the implied assurance of the miranda warnings is an affront to the fundamental fairness that the due process clause requires.” 4
3 United States v. George Evans Harp, Edwin R. Breaux, Jean Orsini, Willard Joseph Martin, Don Garriga Chapman and Elvin Edsel Haddock
ca5 · 1976
green “because the prosecutor's comments struck at the jugular of their story, those remarks cannot be classified as harmless.” 4
4 United States v. Jones
ca5 · 2011
green “t is an abuse of discretion to rely on erroneous conclusions of law.” 4
5 United States v. Jose Escalante-Reyes
ca5 · 2012
green “the focus of plain error review should be whether the severity of the error's harm demands reversal . . . .” 4
6 United States v. George Evans Harp, Edwin R. Breaux, Jean Orsini, Willard Joseph Martin, Don Garriga Chapman and Elvin Edsel Haddock
ca5 · 1976
green “t is fundamentally unfair to allow an arrested person's silence following miranda warnings to be used to impeach an explanation subsequently offered at trial.” 3
7 United States v. Vicente Meneses-Davila
ca5 · 1978
green “even 38 case: 12-40472 document: 00512475113 page: 39 date filed: 12/18/2013 no. 12-40472 c/w no. 12-40477 discounting the comments that might be claimed to be defense invited, however, the prosecutor's other references mandate reversal.” 3

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