Foster v. Strickland’s Empirical Analysis
707 F.2d 1339 · 1983
Citation profile
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2019 · most notably Thompson v. Wainwright (1986), Tichnell v. Maryland (1984)
39 federal appellate · 1 district · 7 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Wainwright v. Sykes · Gregg v. Georgia · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Furman v. Georgia
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had an ethical obligation to comply with his client's wishes.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“... the lawyer should always remember that the decision whether to forego legally available objections or methods because of non-legal factors is ultimately for the client and not for himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Streetman v. Lynaugh“We decline to regard petitioner's pretrial confession as a factor in mitigation of his crime because petitioner attempted to suppress this confession”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.