Pickens v. Al Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
714 F.2d 1455 · 1983
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Grigsby v. Mabry (1985), State v. Johnson (1986)
33 federal appellate · 2 district · 33 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Gideon v. Wainwright · Wainwright v. Sykes · Jackson v. Denno · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the level of effective assistance required under the sixth amendment.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Fudge · Dill v. State“may choose not to investigate all lines of defense and may concentrate, for reasons of sound strategy, on another possible line of defense. We would not fault such a strategy if it were a reasoned choice based on sound assumptions. That is not the situation here. Plant did no investigation into any possible mitigating evidence. He was left with no case to present. A total abdication of duty should never be viewed as permissible trial strategy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]here is no dispute that evidence of ... emotional instability may be relevant in mitigation”
3 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.