Clark v. Quarterman’s Empirical Analysis
457 F.3d 441 · 2006
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Williams v. Taylor · Atkins v. Virginia · United States v. Webster · Ex Parte Briseno · Michael Patrick Moore v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his is incorrect — evidence of a strength in a particular area of adaptive functioning necessarily shows that the defendant does not have a weakness in that particular area. Even if, as [the petitioner] argues, adaptive limitations rather than strengths often define mental retardation, the evidence in this case shows primarily adaptive strengths and does not show limitation in any significant area. The evidence in this case showed that prior to being incarcerated, [the petitioner] functioned normally across a broad range of adaptive behaviors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“require[s] that all three elements exist to establish mental retardation.”), cert. denied, 549 U.S. 1254 , 127 S.Ct. 1373 , 167 L.Ed.2d 163 (2007); see also Maldonado v. Thaler, 625 F.3d 229 , 241 (5th Cir.2010) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blue v. Thaler
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.