Jones v. Stotts’s Empirical Analysis
59 F.3d 143 · 1995
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Jackson v. Shanks (1998), Fisher v. Angelone (1998)
15 federal appellate · 6 district · 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 · Doyle v. Ohio · Estelle v. McGuire · Stone v. Powell · Kimmelman v. Morrison
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is clearly part of the process of establishing trial strategy. A defendant may prevail on an ineffective assistance claim relating to trial strategy only if he can show counsel's strategy decisions would not be considered sound.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“is not per se prohibited; rather, it is the prosecutor's exploitation of a defendant's exercise of his right to silence which is prohibited.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We conclude that because none of the issues Mr. Jones raised amounted to error, counsel did not provide ineffective assistance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.