Nields v. Bradshaw’s Empirical Analysis
482 F.3d 442 · 2007
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably Moore v. Mitchell (2013), Sanborn v. Parker (2010)
17 federal appellate · 11 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 · Williams v. Taylor · Lockett v. Ohio · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "[T]he failure to present additional mitigating evidence that is merely cumulative of that already presented does not rise to the level of a constitutional violation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“' "[I]n order to establish prejudice, the new evidence that a [postconviction] petitioner presents must differ in a substantial way-in strength and subject matter-from the evidence actually presented at sentencing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Saunders v. State
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.