Preston v. Delo’s Empirical Analysis
100 F.3d 596 · 1996
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Simmons v. Bowersox (2001), Sweet v. Delo (1997)
20 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · Coleman v. Thompson · United States v. Frady
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) measuring the type of prejudice that arose from the argument; (2) examining what defense counsel did in counsel's argument to minimize the prejudice; (3) reviewing jury instructions to see if the jury was properly instructed; and (4) determining if there is a reasonable probability that the outcome of the sentencing phase would have been different, taking into account all of the aggravating circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rather, turning to the ultimate question, we conclude that there is no reasonable probability that this statement more than minimally affected the outcome of the sentencing phase....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.