Dawan v. Al Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
31 F.3d 718 · 1994
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 2019
15 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 · Glasser v. United States · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Wood v. Georgia · Church 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the same attorney currently representing Dawan had also represented the witness who changed his story[,] ... [t]he prosecutor's comments made Dawan's attorney look less credible and, by extension, made Dawan look less credible as well.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“even if counsel's decision not to question Stout about the prior statement was, in fact, purely a matter of trial strategy, and even if that decision had nothing to do with the conflict of interest.”
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.