Cotton v. Cockrell’s Empirical Analysis
343 F.3d 746 · 2003
Citation profile
23 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2022 · most notably Dockins v. Hines (2004), United States v. Holmes (2005)
23 federal appellate ·
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. § 2253 (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 · Slack v. McDaniel · Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · Williams v. Taylor · Kotteakos v. United States
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conscious and informed decision on trial tactics and strategy cannot be the basis for constitutionally ineffective assistance of counsel unless it is so ill chosen that it permeates the entire trial with obvious unfairness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]hallenged comments are evaluated in the context of the trial within which they are made.”). 23 . See United States v. Delgado, 672 F.3d 320, 337 (5th Cir.2012); see also United States v. McMillan, 600 F.3d 434, 452 (5th Cir.2010) (finding no error”
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.