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Hoffman v. Arave’s Empirical Analysis

455 F.3d 926 · 2006

Citation profile

18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
May 2019
most recently cited

12 federal appellate · 1 district ·

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Slack v. McDaniel · McMann v. Richardson · Ring v. Arizona · Dusky 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “had Wellman fully presented Hoffman's options and told Hoffman that he was giving up very little in exchange for the security of the death penalty being off the table, Hoffman probably would have gone along with Wellman's suggestion and would have accepted the plea agreement.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
  2. “Hoffman has not proved an ineffective assistance claim based on his counsels' failure to challenge his competency because there is not a reasonable probability that Hoffman would have been found incompetent.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “Hoffman's desire to have the State prove its case was not a principled stand against accepting a plea agreement.”
    1 later decision 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.