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126 F.3d 716 · 1997

Citation profile

51
cited by 51 later decisions
2
states following
February 2015
most recently cited

23 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Victor Wayne Hooks v. Ron Ward (1999), Moore v. Johnson (1999)

23 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

330199720002010decided

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 · Lindh v. Murphy · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Barefoot v. Estelle · Beck v. Alabama

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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he mere possibility of a different outcome is not sufficient to prevail on the prejudice prong”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “[c]ounsel has a duty to make a reasonable investigation based on the information provided by a defendant, particularly when an alibi is involved.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “`The reasonableness of counsel's actions may be determined or substantially influenced by the defendant's own statements or actions.... In particular, what investigation decisions are reasonable depends critically on such information.'”
    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.