Richardson v. Lemke’s Empirical Analysis
745 F.3d 258 · 2014
Citation profile
15 federal appellate ·
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Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Batson v. Kentucky · Williams v. Taylor · Coleman v. Thompson
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By the time Richardson’s ineffective-assistance-at-sentencing claim was decided by the district court, his sentence had been commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. But that did not necessarily render the claim moot; Richardson would still be entitled to relief if adequate representation would have resulted in a sentence to a term of years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mertz v. Williams“An independent state ground will be found 'when the court actually relied on the procedural bar as an independent basis for its disposition of the case.' A state law ground is adequate 'when it is a firmly established and regularly followed state practice at the time it is applied.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gish v. Dittmann“disapprov[e] a practice this Court arguably has sanctioned in prior cases.”
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.