Marek v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis
62 F.3d 1295 · 1995
Citation profile
53 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Sapuppo v. Allstate Floridian Insurance (2014), Horsley v. Feldt (2002)
53 federal appellate · 8 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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Brecht v. Abrahamson · Murray v. Carrier · Lockett v. Ohio
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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Issues not clearly raised in the briefs are considered abandoned.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“`A defense attorney is not required to investigate all leads, however, and”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jenkins v. State · Davis v. State“[c]ounsel has no absolute duty to present mitigating character evidence at all, and trial counsel's failure to present mitigating evidence is not per se ineffective assistance of counsel.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jenkins v. State · Scott v. State
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.