Cooks v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
165 F.3d 1283 · 1998
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Jones v. United States (1999), Moore v. Gibson (1999)
28 federal appellate · 5 district · 8 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Kotteakos v. United States · Edwards v. Arizona · Kyles v. Whitley
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable probability that, absent the errors, the sentencer . . . would have concluded that the balance of aggravating and mitigating circumstances did not warrant death.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Gibson · Smith v. Gibson“[t]he applicable test 'is not whether certain evidence is relevant to both aggravators, but rather, whether one aggravating circumstance necessarily subsumes the other[s].'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Indeed, we have recognized a need to apply even closer scrutiny when reviewing attorney performance during the sentencing phase of a capital case.”
5 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.