Topic: federal habeas is not an ordinary error-correcting writ. · Go Syfert
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4 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 21 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 William Nadworny v. Michael v. Fair.

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1 William Nadworny v. Michael v. Fair Anchor
ca1 · 1989
green “federal habeas is not an ordinary error-correcting writ.” 7
2 William Nadworny v. Michael v. Fair
ca1 · 1989
green “exists to rescue those in custody from the failure to apply federal rights, correctly or at all.” 6
3 Pike v. Guarino
ca1 · 2007
green “the aedpa sets out a separate and exacting standard applicable to review of a state court's factual findings.” 5
4 Brown v. Ruane
ca1 · 2011
green “must be great enough to make the decision unreasonable in the independent and objective judgment of the federal court.” 3

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