Kirwan v. Spencer

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that when statements and inferences given in opening statements are grounded in evidence, they will not be considered as violating a defendant’s due process rights
• If a claim was presented but “has not been adjudicated on the merits in state court, [federal habeas courts] review that claim de novo”
• “There is no precise federal standard governing due process claims based on a prosecutor’s remarks_Darden and Donnelly, however, provide the relevant Supreme Court law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jaynes v. Mitchell
  First Circuit· 2016-06-02· cited 34×
• Connolly v. Roden
  First Circuit· 2014-05-21· cited 27×
• Lucien v. Spencer
  First Circuit· 2017-09-15· cited 21×
• Strickland v. Goguen
  First Circuit· 2021-06-30· cited 15×
• Akara v. Ryan
  D. Massachusetts· 2017-09-11· cited 6×
• Ainooson v. Gelb
  D. Massachusetts· 2013-09-30· cited 2×
• Johnston v. Mitchell
  D. Massachusetts· 2016-10-03· cited 1×
• Ronald Bourdon v. Warden, Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility
  D. New Hampshire· 2022-08-10· cited 1×
• Clements v. Clarke
  First Circuit· 2010-03-03
• Mentus v. Warden
  D. New Hampshire· 2014-05-29

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-26· cited 5,961×
• Darden v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 4,161×
• Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
  Supreme Court· 1974-05-13· cited 3,922×
• Commonwealth v. Wright
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1992-01-15· cited 357×
• Chiang v. Verizon New England, Inc.
  First Circuit· 2010-02-09· cited 244×
• Foxworth v. St. Amand
  First Circuit· 2009-06-29· cited 79×
• Dagley v. Russo
  First Circuit· 2008-08-15· cited 76×
• Clements v. Clarke
  First Circuit· 2010-01-20· cited 74×
• Darden v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-02-18· cited 68×
• Manuel Gonz Lez-Soberal v. United States
  First Circuit· 2001-04-05· cited 62×
• Evans v. Thompson
  First Circuit· 2008-02-08· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Kirwan
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2007-02-02· cited 59×
• Commonwealth v. Duguay
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1999-12-07· cited 32×
• Young v. Murphy
  First Circuit· 2010-08-10· cited 11×
• Forsyth v. Spencer
  First Circuit· 2010-02-16· cited 9×