Hatch v. Oklahoma’s Empirical Analysis
58 F.3d 1447 · 1995
Citation profile
90 federal appellate · 16 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 189 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably State v. Odom (1996), Cummings v. Evans (1998)
90 federal appellate · 16 district · 15 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Wolff v. McDonnell · Coleman v. Thompson · Giglio v. United States
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 189 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'completely unreasonable, not merely wrong, so that [they] bear no relationship to a possible defense strategy.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the law talks of torturing people, that doesn’t mean you have to put them on the rack or twist their arms or something. I can’t think of anymore [sic] torture than to tie a man and a woman up, hog-tie them where they can’t move and at the same time while they’re laying there waiting to be shot, they listen to their twelve-year-old daughter crying and pleading not to be raped by two grown men.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pavatt v. Royal · Pavatt v. Royal
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.