Berry v. King’s Empirical Analysis
765 F.2d 451 · 1985
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 1 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Bonin v. Calderon (1995), Burdine v. Johnson (2001)
18 federal appellate · 1 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 · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Pulley v. Harris · Tison v. Arizona · Briggs Transportation Co. v. International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under Strickland the fact that an attorney used drugs is not, in and of itself, relevant to an ineffective assistance claim”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“used drugs during Berry's trial was far from settled”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the functional equivalent of a plea of guilty”
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.