Anderson v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
18 F.3d 1208 · 1994
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably West v. Johnson (1996), Rector v. Johnson (1997)
13 federal appellate · 2 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 · Teague v. Lane · Penry v. Lynaugh · Beck v. Alabama · Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1)whether the conduct of the defendant that caused the death of the deceased was committed deliberately.and with the reasonable expectation that the death of the deceased or another would result; (2) whether there is a probability that the defendant would commit criminal acts of violence that would constitute a continuing threat to society; and (3) if raised by the evidence, whether the conduct of the defendant in killing the deceased was unreasonable in response to the provocation, if any, by the deceased.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lackey v. Scott“Both prongs of the Strickland test ... require examination of the specific conduct and decisions made by counsel in the particular case; [the defendant] cannot establish that the representation he received was constitutionally inadequate merely from evidence about [trial counsel's] reputation or conduct in other cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gallegos“'in the course of committing ... robbery' is grounded in the objective proof of the particular case; it does not appeal to the sensibilities of the jurors or invite imposition of a subjective standard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Corwin v. Johnson
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.