Matthews v. Evatt’s Empirical Analysis
105 F.3d 907 · 1997
Citation profile
59 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Russel William Burket v. Ronald Angelone, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections (2000), Silva v. Woodford (2002)
59 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 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 · Batson v. Kentucky · Coleman v. Thompson · Teague v. Lane · Murray v. Carrier
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“both the operative facts and the controlling legal principles.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ounsel is not deficient for failing to find mitigating evidence if, after a reasonable investigation, nothing has put the counsel on notice of the existence of that evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[o]blique references that hint that a theory may be lurking in the woodwork will not suffice.”
3 later decisions 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.