Wright v. Walls’s Empirical Analysis
288 F.3d 937 · 2002
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Coleman v. Thompson · Teague v. Lane · Lockett v. Ohio
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.
“An attorney's investigation need not be unlimited in scope or unerring in execution, but merely reasonable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. St. Pierre v. Walls
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.