Mills v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis
63 F.3d 999 · 1995
Citation profile
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently October 2022 · most notably United States v. Kaley (2009), Matter of Personal Restraint of Benn (1998)
34 federal appellate · 2 district · 17 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 · Brady v. State of Maryland · Coleman v. Thompson · Giglio v. United States · Townsend v. Sain
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is a reasonable probability that, absent the errors, the sentencer ... would have concluded that the balance of aggravating and mitigating circumstances did not warrant death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gilreath v. Head · Waldrop v. Jones“arguments not presented in the district court will not be considered for the first time on appeal.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“prov[e] that his counsel’s representation was unreasonable under prevailing professional norms and that the challenged action was not sound strategy. The reasonableness of counsel’s performance is to be evaluated from counsel’s perspective at the time of the alleged error and in light of all the circumstances, and the standard of review is highly deferential.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.