Avellar v. Dubois’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2245 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Thomas v. Arn · Griffin v. California · Cuyler v. Sullivan
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reject[ed] any suggestion that ... something less than a plain and strong likelihood of death [is] sufficient for proof of the third prong of malice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a high degree of likelihood that substantial harm will result to another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.