McDowell v. Calderon’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Babbitt v. Calderon (1998), Doan v. Brigano (2001)
11 federal appellate · 3 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 · Lockett v. Ohio · Williams v. People of State of New York · Eddings v. Oklahoma · Bollenbach v. United States
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The choice to pursue a bad strategy makes no comment on an attorney's judgment where no better choice exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“have been the best choice from a poor lot.”
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.