McWee v. Weldon’s Empirical Analysis
283 F.3d 179 · 2002
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2021
7 federal appellate ·
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 · Estelle v. Smith · Godinez v. Moran · Simmons v. South Carolina · Buchanan v. Kentucky
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the reasonableness of an investigation ... must be considered in light of the scarcity of counsel’s time and resources in preparing for a sentencing hearing”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“a case where counsel's failure to thoroughly investigate kept the jury completely in the dark as to”
2 later decisions 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.