Weeks v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
26 F.3d 1030 · 1994
Citation profile
36 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Coe v. Bell (1998), Mincey v. Head (2000)
36 federal appellate · 3 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)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · United States v. Cronic
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this is the type of tactical decision that the Supreme Court has recognized that a criminal defendant's counsel may elect as a reasonable choice considering all of the circumstances and has cautioned courts against questioning.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he petitioner must show ... there is a reasonable probability that the sentencer would have weighed the balance of aggravating and mitigating factors to find that the circumstances did not warrant the death penalty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tompkins v. Moore“ineffective assistance of counsel in a state collateral proceeding is not cause to override a procedural bar that precludes review of a claim in federal court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Magwood
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.