Summerlin v. Schriro’s Empirical Analysis
427 F.3d 623 · 2005
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably Crittenden v. Ayers (2010), Lambright v. Schriro (2007)
39 federal appellate · 2 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 Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · North Carolina v. Alford · McMann v. Richardson · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This standard does not only mean that the defendant’s waiver must be an informed decision, but also that it must be a competent one. If a client has elected to forego legal proceedings that could avert the imposition of the death penalty, then a court must make the determination ‘whether he has capacity to appreciate his position and make a rational choice with respect to continuing or abandoning further litigation or on the other hand whether he is suffering from a mental disease, disorder, or defect which may substantially affect his capacity in the premises.’ ” Id. (quoting Rees v. Peyton, 384 U.S. 312, 314 , 86 S.Ct. 1505 , 16 L.Ed.2d 583 (1966)).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“apparent when we consider the effect of the error under Arizona law. At the time of the penalty phase proceedings, Arizona law mandated the death penalty [where one or more aggravating factors were present] ... if there was no mitigating evidence.... Thus, [a lawyer's] failure to present any evidence in mitigation [would] `all but assure[ ] the imposition of a death sentence under Arizona law.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the investigation should include inquiries into social background and evidence of family abuse.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.