Oats v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis
141 F.3d 1018 · 1998
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2015
3 federal appellate ·
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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Wainwright v. Sykes · Teague v. Lane · Irvin v. Dowd
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When applying Strickland, we are free to dispose of ineffectiveness claims on either of its two grounds.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]lthough state court findings of fact made in the course of deciding an ineffectiveness claim are subject to the deference of § 2254(d), and although district court findings are subject to the clearly erroneous standard of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 52(a), both the performance and prejudice components of the ineffectiveness inquiry are mixed questions of law and fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mills v. Singletary“in light of the fact that the substance of [Glock's] mental deficiencies and abusive childhood were presented to the jury, and in light of the [three] strong aggravating circumstances found by the sentencing judge . . . , we conclude that there is no reasonable probability that the jury would have returned a life sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Glock v. Moore
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.