Tsirizotakis v. LeFevre’s Empirical Analysis
736 F.2d 57 · 1984
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2011 · most notably Evitts v. Lucey (1985), Cox v. Donnelly (2004)
5 federal appellate · 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 Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · Sandstrom v. Montana · Engle v. Isaac · Cupp v. Naughten
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“intent was not clearly at issue in the [] case. Thus, the trial attorneys' failure to object to the court's language on intent could well have reflected counsel's view that making an issue of intent would only detract from petitioner's primary defense of justification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox v. Donnelly
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.