Dyer v. Calderon’s Empirical Analysis
122 F.3d 720 · 1997
Citation profile
12 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2015
12 federal appellate ·
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 18 U.S.C. § 1956 (§ 1352 of the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2261 (§ 107 of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Kotteakos v. United States · Townsend v. Sain · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Estelle v. McGuire
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test has nothing to do with what the best lawyers would have done. Nor is the test even what most good lawyers would have done. We ask only whether some reasonable lawyer at the trial could have acted, in the circumstances, as defense counsel acted at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Coleman v. Calderon“I didn’t have time to rack my brain to remember every time my car or house had been burglarized and it didn’t have a bearing on the case to me because if you live in Oakland, I don’t know of anyone who lives in Oakland who has never been burglarized.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Dyer v. Calderon“13. Have you or any of your relatives or close friends ever been the victim of any type of crime? ... 15. Have you or any of your relatives or close friends ever been accused of any offense other than traffic cases?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dyer v. Calderon
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.