Whatley v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Hulett v. State (2014), Perkins v. Hall (2011)
5 federal appellate · 24 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“g[ave] significant weight to the [State] [H]abeas [C]ourt's finding that [Petitioner's] new experts' affidavits were 'of questionable credibility and value.' " Id. There are at least two findings of fact embedded in the Court's decision to discount the experts' affidavits. First, the Court found that the facts alleged in the affidavits were not reliable. We know this because the Court did not assume the facts were correct; in other words, the facts were not "proven reliable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“her report's description of the possible 'psychopathology' suggested that [Petitioner] merely had a 'boastful and egocentric' attitude and that he had a 'form of magical thinking ' characterized merely by a belief that he was 'unique and special' and had 'unique and special powers' to influence others.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[the Reports] contain material that would have been damaging to [Petitioner's] mitigation case, including statements that he lacked remorse for his crimes and believed he could 'get away with anything.' " Id. This finding mirrored the State Habeas Court's; it found "as a matter of fact”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.