Cox v. Wyrick’s Empirical Analysis
642 F.2d 222 · 1981
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Washington v. Strickland (1982), Wallace v. Al Lockhart (1983)
15 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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 Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Newman Oil Co. · Williams v. Florida · Specht v. Patterson · Wardius v. Oregon · Wingo v. Wedding
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Cox’s decision not to testify and not to respond to the prosecution’s request for information and the trial court’s order to provide information was the result of a personal and deliberate choice by Cox with the advice of counsel. Therefore, Cox decided not to testify in his own behalf for strategic and tactical reasons other than the trial court’s alibi evidence preclusion order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox v. Wyrick“no evidence that the defendant gave counsel information which would have led him reasonably to conclude that further investigation was necessary”
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.