Oxford v. Delo’s Empirical Analysis
59 F.3d 741 · 1995
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Sweet v. Delo (1997), Reyes v. Keane (1997)
30 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Sykes · Lockett v. Ohio · Schlup v. Delo
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.
“performance of trial counsel is irrelevant to the cause inquiry where petitioner fails to raise the ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim in state court proceedings”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The jury is entitled to receive as much information as possible in order to make an informed decision as to punishment.” State v. Leisure, 749 S.W.2d 366 , 379 (Mo. 1988) (citations omitted), cert. denied, 506 U.S. 923 , 113 S.Ct. 343 , 121 L.Ed.2d 259 (1992). The concept of individualized sentencing in capital cases requires that the sentencer possess “the fullest information possible concerning the defendant’s life and characteristics” as well as the circumstances of the particular offense. Lockett v. Ohio, 438 U.S. 586 , 602-04, 98 S.Ct. 2954 , 2963-64, 57 L.Ed.2d 973 (1978) (internal quotations and citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Oxford v. Bowersox“entitled to effective assistance of counsel on that portion of the hybrid appeal that was devoted to direct-appeal issues because he has no right to effective assistance of counsel on that portion of the hybrid appeal devoted to the appeal of his Rule 29.15 claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clay v. Bowersox
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.