Butcher v. Marquez’s Empirical Analysis
758 F.2d 373 · 1985
Citation profile
82 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Jeffries v. Blodgett (1993), United States v. Span (1996)
82 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 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 · Townsend v. Sain · Jones v. Barnes · Lisenba v. People of State of California · Truong Dinh Hung v. United States
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.
“made errors that a reasonably competent attorney acting as a diligent and conscientious advocate would not have made”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Defense counsel need not request instructions inconsistent with its trial theory.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“counsel's strategic choice to forego an instruction for voluntary manslaughter was reasonable because counsel had good cause to believe that further efforts to obtain such an instruction would harm Butcher's case.”
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.