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← 275 F. Supp. 2d 331 - Weeks v. Senkowski

275 F. Supp. 2d 331 - Weeks v. Senkowski’s Empirical Analysis

2003

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · Williams v. Taylor · Coleman 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “to make reasonable investigations or to make a reasonable decision that makes particular investigations unnecessary.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “convicted of having participated in the same murders for which [Weeks] was being tried.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence

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.