Witham v. Mabry’s Empirical Analysis
596 F.2d 293 · 1979
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently January 2005 · most notably Seales v. State (1979), Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. A & P Steel, Inc. (1984)
22 federal appellate · 12 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 Padilla-Martinez v. United States · Granza v. United States · Roger Lee McQueen v. Harold R. Swenson, Warden · United States v. Rogers · United States v. Pelton
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to prevail on a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, a defendant must show that his attorney failed to exercise the customary skill and diligence that a reasonably competent attorney would perform under similar circumstances, and that he was prejudiced thereby.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Benson v. State · Drake v. Wyrick
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.