Williamson v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Jones v. State (1998), 774 So. 2d 637 - Rutherford v. Moore (2000)
1 federal appellate · 78 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Stafford v. Oklahoma · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n · Dade County v. Lake Lucerne Civic Ass'n · Davis v. United States
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“compromised the appellate process to such a degree as to undermine confidence in the correctness of the result.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“appellate counsel cannot be considered ineffective for failing to raise issues which [were] procedurally barred ... because they were not properly raised at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of such nature that it would probably produce an acquittal on retrial.”
2 later decisions 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.