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Muniz v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

647 F.3d 619 · 2011

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
July 2019
most recently cited

2 federal appellate ·

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Williams v. Taylor · United States v. Cronic · Wiggins v. Smith, Warden · Lindh v. Murphy

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

  1. “have held that the denial of counsel with presumed prejudice only occurs once counsel sleeps through a ‘substantial portion of defendant’s trial’”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “total cross-examination was fairly short, spanning only 26 pages of trial transcript”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “was asleep for an undetermined portion of a single cross-examination,”
    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.