Spencer v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
18 F.3d 229 · 1994
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably O'Dell III v. Jd Netherland J S III O'Dell III (1996), Wright v. Angelone (1998)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Murray v. Carrier · Harris v. Reed · Herrera v. Collins
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In examining whether counsel’s performance was deficient, we examine whether counsel’s performance was reasonable under prevailing professional norms. We conduct this review not by asking whether we would have defended petitioner in the same way, but instead with a deferential eye, and we presume that challenged acts are likely the result of a sound trial strategy-”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Payne v. Thompson“a capital defendant accused of an interracial capital crime is entitled to have prospective jurors informed of the race of the victim and questioned on the issue of racial bias,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sexton v. French
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.