Winston v. Boatwright’s Empirical Analysis
649 F.3d 618 · 2011
Citation profile
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.
“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 majoritye.g. State v. Sessions“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 majoritye.g. Schmidt v. Foster“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 majoritye.g. State v. Sessions
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.