Washington v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
655 F.2d 1346 · 1981
Citation profile
181 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 325 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 451 So. 2d 743 - Neal v. State (1984), Washington v. Strickland (1982)
181 federal appellate · 1 district · 33 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Jackson v. Virginia · Chapman v. State of California · Neil v. Biggers · Wainwright v. Sykes · Townsend v. Sain
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 325 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“counsel reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"... not be precluded from considering, as a mitigating factor, any aspect of the defendant's character or record and any of the circumstances of the offense that the defendant proffers as a basis for a sentence less than death." 438 U.S. at 604 , 98 S.Ct. at 2964 .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“from the perspective of counsel, taking into account all of the circumstances of the case, but only as those circumstances were known to him at the time in question.”
6 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.