Mattheson v. King’s Empirical Analysis
751 F.2d 1432 · 1985
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Smith v. Black (1990), Moore v. Johnson (1999)
33 federal appellate · 16 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 Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Donnelly v. DeChristoforo
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing state evidentiary rulings, our role is limited to determining whether a trial judge's error is so extreme that it constituted denial of fundamental fairness.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if based on an informed and reasoned practical judgment, is well within the range of practical choices not to be second-guessed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“must overcome the presumption that, under the circumstances, the challenged action `might be considered sound trial strategy.'”
2 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.