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Winston v. Boatwright’s Empirical Analysis

649 F.3d 618 · 2011

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
6
states following
May 2025
most recently cited

9 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Miller-El v. Cockrell Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division · Batson v. Kentucky · Williams v. Taylor · Penson 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Deliberately choosing to engage in conduct that the Supreme Court has unequivocally banned is both professionally irresponsible and well below the standard expected of competent counsel.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “so lacking in justification that there was an error well understood and comprehended in existing law beyond any possibility for fairminded disagreement”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “persist[ing] throughout the proceeding and relat[ing] to the framework in which a trial proceeds”
    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.