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2 canonical passages across 2 cases, quoted by 9 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 Spencer v. SECRETARY, DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS.

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1 Spencer v. SECRETARY, DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS Anchor
ca11 · 2010
green “a state court decision involves an unreasonable application of federal law when it identifies the correct legal rule from supreme court case law but unreasonably applies that rule to the facts of the petitioner's case,” 6
2 Darrell B. Grayson v. Leslie Thompson
ca11 · 2001
green “emphasizing petitioner's alcoholic youth and intoxication may also have been damaging to petitioner in the eyes of the jury.” 3

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