O'Hara v. Wigginton’s Empirical Analysis
24 F.3d 823 · 1994
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 95 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably McQueen v. Scroggy (1996), Austin v. Bell (1997)
23 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Hill v. Lockhart · Pennhurst State School and Hospital v. Halderman · Santobello v. New York · Kentucky Department of Corrections v. Thompson
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 95 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]trategic choices made after thorough investigation of law and facts relevant to plausible options are virtually unchallengeable....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'However, a failure to investigate, especially as to key evidence, must be supported by a reasoned and deliberate determination that investigation was not warranted.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Strategic choices made after thorough investigation of law and facts relevant to plausible options are virtuallyunchallengea-ble; and strategic choices made after less than complete investigation are reasonable precisely to the extent that reasonable professional judgments support the limitations on investigation. In other words, counsel has a duty to make reasonable investigations or to make a reasonable decision that makes particular investigations unnecessary.”
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.