Muhammad v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2013
1 federal appellate · 17 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Parker v. North Carolina · Pesce v. United States · Spinkellink v. Wainwright · Knight v. State
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether to object is a matter of trial tactics which are left to the discretion of the attorney so long as his performance is within the range of what is expected of reasonably competent counsel.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“confusion and wonderment as to the possible practical effect of a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity ... [J]urors will be able to weigh the evidence relating to the factual existence of legal insanity in an atmosphere untroubled by the distracting thought that such a verdict would allow a dangerous psychopath to roam at large.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Knight v. Dugger
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.