5 canonical passages across 5 cases, quoted by 64 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 Emerson Pinkney v. Secretary, Department of Corrections.
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emerson Pinkney v. Secretary, Department of Corrections Anchor | green | “n attorney will not be held to have performed deficiently for failing to perform a futile act, one that would not have gotten his client any relief.” | 35 |
| 2 | Mario MacHin v. Louie L. Wainwright, Secretary, Department of Corrections, State of Florida | green | “the federal courts must defer to a state court's interpretation of its own rules of evidence and procedure.” | 12 |
| 3 | Raymond L. Buckelew and James Laney Jenkins v. United States of America, Judson Lee Drane v. United States | green | “omplaints of uncalled witnesses are not favored, because the presentation of testimonial evidence is a matter of trial strategy and because allegations of what a witness would have testified are largely speculative.” | 7 |
| 4 | United States v. Segun Ashimi | green | “vidence about the testimony of a putative witness must generally be presented in the form of actual testimony by the witness or on affidavit.” | 5 |
| 5 | Pearce v. State | green | “the theory of admissibility is not that the prior statement is true and the in-court testimony is false, but that because the witness has not told the truth in one of the statements, the jury should disbelieve both statements.” | 5 |
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