Turner v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Cargle v. Mullin (2003), Small v. Commissioner of Correction (2008)
10 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 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 · Thomas v. Arn · Kimmelman v. Morrison · People v. Green · Douglass v. United Services Automobile Ass'n
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is a factor to be weighed in considering the propriety of finding waiver of an issue on appeal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Duffus v. Duffus · In Re Grand Jury Subpoena (Mark Torf/torf Environmental Management), United States of America v. Mark Torf, Torf Environmental Management, in Re Grand Jury Subpoena (Mark Torf/torf Environmental Management), United States of America, Dennis D. Ellis, Intervenor-Appellant. In Re Grand Jury Subpoena (Mark Torf/torf Environmental Management), United States of America, Dennis D. Ellis, Intervenor-Appellant. In Re Grand Jury Subpoena (Mark Torf/torf Environmental Management), United States of America, Ponderosa Paint Manufacturing, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant. In Re Grand Jury Subpoena (Mark Torf/torf Environmental Management), United States of America, Ponderosa Paint Manufacturing, Inc., Intervenor-Appellant“[Strategic choices made after thorough investigation of law and facts relevant to plausible options are virtually unchallengeable; and strategic choices made after less than complete investigation are reasonable precisely to the extent that reasonable professional judgments support the limitations on investigation. In other words, counsel has a duty to make reasonable investigations or to make a reasonable decision that makes particular investigations unnecessary. In any ineffectiveness case, a particular decision not to investigate must be directly assessed for reasonableness in all the circumstances, applying a heavy measure of deference to counsel’s judgments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Counsel's admission that he spent at most forty-five minutes with Turner prior to trial demonstrates deficient performance . . . [and] is especially shocking in light of the seriousness of the charges”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Summerlin v. Schriro
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.