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Devier v. Zant’s Empirical Analysis

3 F.3d 1445 · 1993

Citation profile

80
cited by 80 later decisions
3
states following
January 2016
most recently cited

23 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Brecheen v. Reynolds (1994), Hatch v. Oklahoma (1995)

23 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions

350199320002010decided

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

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · In the Matter of Samuel Winship

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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “`A defense attorney is not required to investigate all leads, however, and "there is no per se rule that evidence of a criminal defendant's trouble childhood must always be presented as mitigating evidence in the penalty phase of a capital case.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Jenkins v. State · 952 So. 2d 1149 - Gaddy v. State
  2. “a court should be highly deferential to those choices ... that are arguably dictated by a reasonable trial strategy.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Turpin v. Lipham · Rogers v. Zant
  3. “would have added little to the weight of the mitigating evidence.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Fugate v. Head · Robinson v. Moore

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.