Washington v. Strickland’s Empirical Analysis
693 F.2d 1243 · 1982
Citation profile
113 federal appellate · 5 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 268 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2017 · most notably Strickland v. Washington (1984), Hernandez v. State (1986)
113 federal appellate · 5 district · 36 state decisions — followed in 18 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2243 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Glasser v. United States · Gideon v. Wainwright · United States v. Agurs · Wainwright v. Sykes
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 268 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“actual and substantial disadvantage to the course of his defense.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a possibility of prejudice, but that [it] worked to his actual and substantial disadvantage.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“effective assistance of counsel, that is, counsel reasonably likely to render and rendering reasonably effective assistance given the totality of the circumstances.”
14 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.