Stevens v. McBride’s Empirical Analysis
489 F.3d 883 · 2007
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Moore v. Mitchell (2013), Pole v. Randolph (2009)
17 federal appellate · 4 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. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Illinois v. Allen · Holbrook v. Flynn · Deck v. Missouri
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This is a complete failure of the duty to investigate with no professional justification. Where an expert witness’s opinion is “crucial to the defense theory[,] defense counsel’s failure to have questioned [the expert] ... prior to trial is inexcusable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moore v. Mitchell“as a result of mental disease or defect ... was unable to appreciate the wrongfulness of the conduct at the time of the offense,”
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.