Poindexter v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
454 F.3d 564 · 2006
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably State v. Hunter (2011), Fairchild v. Workman (2009)
18 federal appellate · 3 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Williams v. Taylor · United States v. Bagley · Estelle v. McGuire
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Wiggins, 539 U.S. at 523-28 , 123 S.Ct. 2527 , 156 L.Ed.2d 471 (finding ineffective assistance based on counsel’s failure to follow leads that would have lead them to discover evidence of severe privation and abuse as a child from his alcoholic mother, and sexual torment and rape in foster care, as well as diminished mental capacities); Williams v. Taylor, 529 U.S. 362 , 395, 120 S.Ct. 1495 , 146 L.Ed.2d 389 (2000) (finding counsel’s performance deficient where counsel failed to investigate or otherwise prepare for mitigation until a week before trial and failed to “conduct an investigation that would have uncovered extensive records graphically describing Williams’ [sic] nightmarish childhood”); Harries v. Bell, 417 F.3d 631 , 638 (6th Cir.2005) (finding that counsel failed to conduct an adequate investigation where counsel limited their investigation to contacting by telephone the petitioner’s mother and brother, sent requests for information to some institutions in which the petitioner had been confined, interviewed only four witnesses — the petitioner, his co-defendant, and two state witnesses, and declined to seek the assistance of a mental health expert or to conduct a thorough investigation into the petitioner’s history of mental health or family background); Hamblin v. Mitchell, 354 F.3d 482 , 488 (6th Cir.2003) (adopting the 1989 and 2003 standard for attorneys representing death penalty prisoners in 1982 and holding that counsel’s failure to adhere to those guidelin”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.