Bloom v. Calderon’s Empirical Analysis
132 F.3d 1267 · 1997
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Silva v. Woodford (2002), Mayfield v. Woodford (2001)
34 federal appellate · 5 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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · First National Bank v. United States · Youngberg v. United States · 48 Cal. 3d 1194 - People v. Bloom · Sanders v. Ratelle
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The complete lack of effort by Bloom's trial counsel to obtain a psychiatric expert until days before trial, combined with counsel's failure to adequately prepare his expert and then present him as a trial witness, was constitutionally deficient performance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Daniels v. Woodford“counsel does not have a duty `to acquire sufficient background material on which an expert can base reliable psychiatric conclusions independent of any request for information from an expert,'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Silva v. Woodford“[d]escribing [counsel]'s conduct as `strategic' strips that term of all substance”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Daniels v. Woodford
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.