Mason v. Godinez’s Empirical Analysis
47 F.3d 852 · 1995
Citation profile
25 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably United States v. Hammoud (2004), 23 Cal. 4th 529 - People v. Coddington (2000)
25 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Payton v. New York · Lockhart v. Fretwell · Kimmelman v. Morrison · United States v. Santana
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the amount of information the police are required to gather before establishing probable cause for an arrest is in inverse proportion to the gravity of the crime and the threat of its imminent repetition”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Probable cause means more than bare suspicion but less than absolute certainty that a search will be fruitful.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“his attorney's performance fell below an objective level of reasonableness,”
2 later decisions 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.