Joel Rhodes v. Michael Dittmann

How courts have described this case

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• “Sec‐ tion 2254(d) focuses on the ultimate decision of the state court, not on parts of a written opinion that are not necessary to the outcome.”
• “Sec‐ tion 2254(d) focuses on the ultimate decision of the state court, not on parts of a written opinion that are not necessary to the outcome.”
• “Section 2254(d) focuses on the ultimate decision of the state court, not on parts of a written opinion that might in isolation appear to be misguided but that in the end are not necessary to the outcome.”
• “Section 2254(d) focuses on the ultimate decision of the state court, not on parts of a written opinion that might in isolation appear to be misguided but that in the end are not necessary to the outcome. As we often have noted, we review judgments, not opinions.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).