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7 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 29 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 Beunka Adams v. Rick Thaler, Director.

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1 Beunka Adams v. Rick Thaler, Director Anchor
ca5 · 2012
green “we review a district court's grant of a stay of execution for abuse of discretion.” 9
2 Ayestas v. Davis
scotus · 2018
green “authorizes federal courts to provide funding to a party who is facing the prospect of a death sentence and is 'financially unable to obtain adequate representation or investigative, expert, or other reasonably necessary services.” 5
3 Felix Rocha v. Rick Thaler, Director
ca5 · 2010
green “the quality of the mitigation evidence the petitioner would have introduced at sentencing has no bearing on his claim of actual innocence of the death penalty.” 3
4 Felix Rocha v. Rick Thaler, Director
ca5 · 2010
green “article 11.071 . . . to mean that petitioners must make a threshold showing that the applicant is actually innocent of the death penalty.” 3
5 Chester Lee Wicker v. O.L. McCotter Director, Texas Department of Corrections
ca5 · 1986
green “in the absence of a declaration by the higher court that the executions should be stayed in cases presenting the issue raised by murphy, we must follow our circuit's precedents and deny . . . a stay of execution on this issue.” 3
6 Cooey v. Strickland
ca6 · 2009
green “a subsequent application for a writ of habeas corpus” 3
7 Alliance Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA
ca5 · 2023
green “unlike a preliminary injunction, a stay does not actively prohibit conduct.” 3

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