Rogers v. Zant’s Empirical Analysis
13 F.3d 384 · 1994
Citation profile
41 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably Chandler v. United States (2000), Waters v. Thomas (1995)
41 federal appellate · 7 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 · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Doyle v. Ohio · Wainwright v. Witt · Caldwell v. Mississippi
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the cases in which habeas petitioners can properly prevail on the ground of ineffective assistance of counsel are few and far between.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“correct approach toward investigation reflects the reality that lawyers do not enjoy the benefit of endless time, energy or financial resources.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[o]nce we conclude that declining to investigate further was a reasonable act, we do not look to see what a further investigation would have produced.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jefferson v. Hall · Boyd v. State
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.