Battles v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Drinkard v. Walker (2006), Chatman v. Mancill (2006)
51 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Jones v. Barnes · Smith v. Murray · Edge v. State
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he reviewing court should resolve whether the decision was a reasonable tactical move which any competent attorney in the same situation would have made, by comparing the strength of the errors raised against the significance and obviousness of the alleged error passed over.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Shorter v. Waters · McClure v. Kemp“[t]he question is not whether [an appellate] attorney’s decision not to raise [a particular] issue was correct or wise, but rather whether his decision was an unreasonable one which only an incompetent attorney would adopt. [Cit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Griffin v. Terry
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.