White v. McAninch’s Empirical Analysis
235 F.3d 988 · 2000
Citation profile
7 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 · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Lindh v. Murphy · McQueen v. Scroggy · James David Carter v. Ricky Bell, Warden Paul Summers, Attorney General
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The determination as to whether counsel’s trial strategy amounts to ineffective assistance of counsel should be made with respect to the thoroughness of the pretrial investigation that counsel conducted. The more thorough the investigation, the more deference the trial strategy receives, while strategic decisions made after incomplete investigation receive less.... ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“must be able to demonstrate a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“even deliberate trial tactics may constitute ineffective assistance of counsel if they fall outside the wide range of professionally competent assistance.”
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.