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77 F.3d 1308 · 1996

Citation profile

54
cited by 54 later decisions
2
states following
March 2025
most recently cited

27 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably United States of America v. Sean Lamar Sanders (2001), McCoy v. United States (2001)

27 federal appellate · 7 state decisions

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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 · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Teague v. Lane · Baker v. McCollan · Rose v. Lundy

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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “When challenging a death sentence, a petitioner must show that 'there is a reasonable probability that, absent the errors, the sentencer would have concluded that the balance of aggravating and mitigating circumstances did not warrant death.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Bowman v. State
  2. “a rule is `novel,' and therefore cause for procedural default, only if the petitioner did not have the legal tools to construct the claim before the rule was issued”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. McCoy v. United States
  3. “According to the Supreme Court, the 'futility of presenting an objection to the state courts cannot alone constitute cause for a failure to object at trial.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. In re Bowles

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.