Castro v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
138 F.3d 810 · 1998
Citation profile
37 federal appellate · 5 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Victor Wayne Hooks v. Ron Ward (1999), 748 So. 2d 1028 - Stephens v. State (1999)
37 federal appellate · 5 district · 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 · Barker v. Wingo · Kotteakos v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Cuyler v. Sullivan
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'evidence of a defendant's irrational behavior, his demeanor at trial, and any prior medical opinion on competence to stand trial are all relevant in determining whether further inquiry is required'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“fell below an objective standard of reasonableness,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable probability that, absent the errors, the sentencer--including an appellate court, to the extent that it independently reweighs the evidence--would have concluded that the balance of aggravating and mitigating circumstances did not warrant death.”
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.