Moran v. Godinez’s Empirical Analysis
57 F.3d 690 · 1995
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 124 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Tuan Van Tran v. Gary Lindsey Salinas Valley State Prisons (2000), Williams v. Woodford (2002)
53 federal appellate · 5 district · 14 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. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Boykin v. Alabama · Faretta v. California · Wolff v. McDonnell · North Carolina v. Alford
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 124 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conduct a meaningful hearing to evaluate retrospectively the competency of the defendant.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'ability to consult with his lawyer with a reasonable degree of rational understanding' [or that he then lacked] 'a rational [or] factual understanding of the proceedings against him.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] defendant claiming ineffective assistance of counsel must demonstrate that counsel's actions were outside the range of professionally competent assistance, and the defendant was prejudiced by counsel's actions.”
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.