Nguyen v. Reynolds B’s Empirical Analysis
131 F.3d 1340 · 1997
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 167 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Coe v. Bell (1998), Byrd v. Collins (2000)
68 federal appellate · 2 district · 13 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Coleman v. Thompson · Lindh v. Murphy · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
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 167 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a showing by clear and convincing evidence [that] raise[s] threshold doubt about his competency.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sufficient present ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding ... [and] a rational as well as factual understanding of the proceedings against him.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n attorney's actions during voir dire are considered to be matters of trial strategy. A strategic decision cannot be the basis for a claim of ineffective assistance unless counsel's decision is shown to be so ill chosen that it permeates the entire trial with obvious unfairness.”
2 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.