Dows v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
211 F.3d 480 · 2000
Citation profile
28 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Taylor v. Maddox (2004), Tuan Van Tran v. Gary Lindsey Salinas Valley State Prisons (2000)
28 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Cuyler v. Sullivan · McMann v. Richardson · United States v. Cronic · George Smith Warden v. Lee Robbins
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“279 shall not be granted with respect to any claim that was adjudicated on the merits in State court proceedings unless the adjudication of the claim ... resulted in a decision that was contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law, as determined by the Supreme Court of the United States.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ruiz v. Scribner · Lewis v. Mayle“[E]ven if [trial counsel] had been in the early stages of Alzheimer's at the time of [the defendant's] trial, this alone is not sufficient for a per se reversal of [the defendant's] conviction by a jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The mere fact that counsel may have suffered from a mental illness at the time of trial ... has never been recognized by the Supreme Court as grounds to automatically presume prejudice.”
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.