Weidner v. Wainwright’s Empirical Analysis
708 F.2d 614 · 1983
Citation profile
7 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently April 2007
7 federal appellate ·
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 Cuyler v. Sullivan · Hazra v. United States · Washington v. Strickland · Meachum Et Al. v. Longval · Stanley v. Zant
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the heart of effective representation is the independent duty to investigate and prepare”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“permissible trial strategy can never include the failure to conduct a reasonably substantial investigation into a defendant's one plausible line of defense.”
1 later decision 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.