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Beavers v. Balkcom’s Empirical Analysis

636 F.2d 114 · 1981

Citation profile

77
cited by 77 later decisions
6
states following
August 2016
most recently cited

37 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Washington v. Watkins (1981), Washington v. Strickland (1982)

37 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions

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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

Relies on Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · Nogueras v. Puerto Rico International Airlines, Inc. · Page v. Work · MacKenna v. Ellis · Wilbert Herring v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections

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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “By not following up on the telephone call to the state mental hospital where Beavers had been previously treated, counsel fell short of the thorough pre-trial investigation to which the appellant was entitled”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Dill v. State
  2. “`particularly critical interrelation between expert psychiatric assistance and minimally effective representation of counsel'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Dill v. State
  3. “The issue should be squarely presented to a court as to what further investigation would have shown.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Martin v. Maggio

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.