Porter v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis
14 F.3d 554 · 1994
Citation profile
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Chandler v. United States (2000), Brecheen v. Reynolds (1994)
35 federal appellate · 1 district · 24 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 · Cuyler v. Sullivan · United States v. Cronic · Holloway v. Arkansas · Payne v. Tennessee
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An attorney has a duty to conduct a reasonable investigation, including an investigation of the defendant's background, for possible mitigating evidence.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Questions involving conflicts of interest are mixed determinations of law and fact subject to de novo review.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“point to specific instances in the record which suggest an impairment or compromise of his interests for the benefit of another party”
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.