Sneed v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
670 F.2d 1348 · 1982
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2014
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Jackson v. Virginia · McMann v. Richardson · Stone v. Powell · Leary v. United States · Tot 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Implicit in the district court’s acceptance of the State’s unsupported and merely speculative theory of why defense counsel acted as he did in declining to subpoena or call presumably available witnesses prepared to give important exculpatory testimony is the unstated assumption that a choice was forced between using their testimony or relying on the anticipated weakness of the State’s case. But of course no such either/or choice was presented. So far as the record shows, the witnesses could readily have been subpoenaed and made available for calling if the course of trial dictated that strategy, with the decision being reserved pending presentation of the State’s case. Had that been done, with the decision being then made not to use these witnesses, a quite different question of deliberate, though possibly unwise, trial strategy as against simple neglect would have been presented to the district court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'the relevant question is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barrow v. Johnson“'appropriate investigations, both factual and legal, to determine if matters of defense can be developed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kuiken v. Lee
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.