Lewis v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
11 F.3d 1349 · 1993
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Conway (2006), State v. Ketterer (2006)
13 federal appellate · 16 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jones v. Barnes · Penson v. Ohio · Baumgart v. Fairchild Aircraft Corp. · United States v. Morrow
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]ecisions about 'the viability of certain defenses' are 'within the exclusive province of defense counsel to make after consultation with his client.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“bears the heavy burden of demonstrating that counsel made an error so serious that he was not functioning as counsel guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment and that this deficient performance prejudiced his defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment. Second, the defendant must show that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense. This requires showing that counsel's errors were so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable. Unless a defendant makes both showings, it cannot be said that the conviction or death sentence resulted from a breakdown in the adversary process that renders the result unreliable. 92 Id. at 687. Thus, the issue is whether counsel's performance was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.