Huffington v. Nuth’s Empirical Analysis
140 F.3d 572 · 1998
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Vonaire T. Washington v. Judy Smith, Warden, Oshkosh Correctional Institution (2000), United States v. Young (2001)
11 federal appellate · 5 district · 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. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Giglio v. United States · Chambers v. Mississippi · Estelle v. McGuire · Lindh v. Murphy
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Supreme Court held that, to prevent a defendant from being deprived of a fair trial, the Due Process Clause required admission of exculpatory confessions by third parties -even if otherwise excludable on the basis of state evidentiary rules -where the evidence is `highly relevant to a critical issue' in the case, and sufficient indicia of reliability exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Although a lawyer's failure to investigate a witness who has been identified as crucial may indicate an inadequate investigation, the failure to investigate everyone whose name happens to be mentioned by the defendant does not suggest ineffective assistance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Tucker v. Ozmint“the defendant [can] overcome the presumption that, under the circumstances, the challenged action [or lack of action] `might be considered sound trial strategy.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reynoso v. Giurbino
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.