Schofield v. Meders’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
21
cited by 21 later decisions
2
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · Smith v. Francis · Timberlake v. State · Head v. Hill
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The record in this case clearly establishes that the habeas court granted relief on claims that had been raised in essentially the identical form in the hearing held on remand to the trial court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““We remind bench and bar that while it may represent a hardship to petitioner, the intervening death of a habeas petitioner’s trial attorney does not excuse a petitioner’s inability to produce ‘objective evidence’ in support of his allegations .... While unfortunate, because the death of a petitioner’s trial counsel is just as, if not more, likely to prejudice the respondent, it does not relieve the petitioner of his ‘heavy burden’ of proving ineffective assistance.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Walker v. State
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.