Mayo v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
13 F.3d 528 · 1994
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 9 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 298 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Sellan v. Kuhlman (2001), Cargle v. Mullin (2003)
51 federal appellate · 9 district · 11 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 · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Jones v. Barnes · Wright v. Wright · Patterson v. Medberry
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 298 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] petitioner may establish constitutionally inadequate performance if he shows that counsel omitted significant and obvious issues while pursuing issues that were clearly and significantly weaker.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Johnson v. Artuz · Broyles v. Lewis“[T]he district court must examine the trial court record to determine whether appellate counsel failed to present significant and obvious issues on appeal. Significant issues which could have been raised should then be compared to those which were raised. Generally, only when ignored issues are clearly stronger than those presented, will the presumption of effective assistance of counsel be overcome.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ounsel does not have a duty to advance every nonfrivolous argument that could be made.”
5 later decisions 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.