Mills v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis
161 F.3d 1273 · 1998
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Mincey v. Head (2000), United States v. Prather (2000)
31 federal appellate · 3 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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Neitzke v. Williams · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Lockett v. Ohio
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant's confrontation rights are satisfied when the cross-examination permitted exposes the jury to the facts sufficient to evaluate the credibility of the witnesses and enables defense counsel to establish a record from which he can properly argue why the witness is less than reliable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Hill v. Moore“deferential review of all of the circumstances from the perspective of counsel at the time of the alleged errors”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.