Battenfield v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
2
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · Jones v. Barnes · JEB v. Alabama Ex Rel. TB · Ross v. Oklahoma
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ven without the waiver, . . . Battenfield ha[d] failed to show that [Shook] was ineffective by not presenting mitigating evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“so undermined the proper functioning of the adversarial process that the trial cannot be relied on as having produced a just result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“grounds for reversal only if the defendant exhausts all peremptory challenges and an incompetent juror is forced upon him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.