Timberlake v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
409 F.3d 819 · 2005
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2025
8 federal appellate · 1 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri · Massaro v. United States · Bell Warden v. Cone
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Many defendants express dissatisfaction with counsel, assert that their rights have been denied at every turn (because they have an unreasonable view of what rights they possess), demonstrate that they do not understand how the legal system handles witnesses and investigators (that’s why they need lawyers, after all), and forget or choose to ignore what judges said earlier. Many defendants even dismiss their lawyers because they suppose without justification that more should be done to assist them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We know from examinations both before and after trial that Timberlake was generally competent from 1994 through 2000, and his behavior in court did not imply a dramatic yet temporary deterioration in ability to understand the proceedings and assist his lawyers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Timberlake v. State“Coerced testimony dragged out of truculent family members is unlikely to persuade a jury that a defendant has redeeming features.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Woods v. McBride
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.