White v. Roper’s Empirical Analysis
416 F.3d 728 · 2005
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Woodford v. Visciotti · Alford v. United States · Williams 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“presumption of sound trial strategy . . . founders on the rocks of ignorance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Link v. Luebbers
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.