Jackson v. Herring’s Empirical Analysis
42 F.3d 1350 · 1995
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Chandler v. United States (2000), 761 So. 2d 1055 - Freeman v. State (2000)
66 federal appellate · 1 district · 18 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 · Batson v. Kentucky · Wainwright v. Sykes · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Bonner v. City of Prichard
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ur case law rejects the notion that a 'strategic' decision can be reasonable when the attorney has failed to investigate his options and make a reasonable choice between them.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In cases where sentencing counsel did not conduct enough investigation to formulate an accurate life profile of a defendant, we have held the representation beneath professionally competent standards. See, e.g., Blanco [v. Singletary ] 943 F.2d [1477] 1501-03 [(11th Cir.1991)] (counsel’s performance deficient where his sole attempt to procure mitigation witnesses for penalty phase was to leave messages for the witnesses and await their responses, and he thus ultimately conducted no interviews); Harris [v. Dugger ], 874 F.2d [756] 763 [ (11th Cir.1989) ] (counsel deficient where he did not investigate defendant’s family, scholastic, military and employment background); Middleton [v. Dugger], 849 F.2d [491] 493 [(11th Cir.1988) ] (performance deficient where ‘trial counsel conducted almost no background investigation, despite discussions with Middleton concerning the existence of such mitigating evidence’ as psychiatric problems, brutal childhood, physical, sexual and drug abuse, and low I.Q.); Armstrong [v. Dugger], 833 F.2d [1430] 1433-34 [ (11th Cir.1987) ] (performance deficient where trial counsel’s investigation of mitigating evidence was limited to single conversation with defendant and his parents, and another conversation with defendant’s parole officer).””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Land · State v. Sessions
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.