Hunt v. Rc Lee’s Empirical Analysis
291 F.3d 284 · 2002
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2020 · most notably State v. Hunt (2003), Hunt v. State (2005)
8 federal appellate · 8 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 · Williams v. Taylor · Doerr v. Doerr · Burger v. Kemp
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court’s evaluation of counsel’s performance under this standard must be “highly deferential” so as not to “second-guess” the performance. To eliminate the distortions of hindsight, a court must evaluate counsel’s performance “from counsel’s perspective at the time.” Because of the difficulty of making this inquiry in the context of the wide range of reasonable strategic approaches, “a court must indulge a strong .presumption that counsel’s conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance; that is, the defendant must overcome the presumption that, under the circumstances, the challenged action might be considered sound trial strategy””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“deficient in that it fell below an objective standard of reasonableness and outside the wide range of professionally competent assistance ... and (2) that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense in that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Swisher v. True“contrary to, or involved an unreasonable application of, clearly established Federal law,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Longworth v. Ozmint
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.