Mansfield v. Dormire’s Empirical Analysis
202 F.3d 1018 · 2000
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Michel v. State of Louisiana Poret · Herrera v. Collins · McGee v. County of Orange
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he focus is on “whether counsel’s deficient performance renders the result of the trial unreliable OR the proceeding fundamentally unfair.” Lockhart v. Fretwell, 506 U.S. 364 , 372, 113 S.Ct. 838 , 122 L.Ed.2d 180 (1993). (Emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hanes v. Dormire“[A] claim of `actual innocence' is . . . a gateway through which a habeas petitioner must pass to have his otherwise barred constitutional claim considered on the merits.”
1 later decision 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.