Watson v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
784 F.2d 722 · 1985
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2021
13 federal appellate · 2 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · Glasser v. United States · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Hill v. Lockhart
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defense counsel registered no objection to this procedure, a failure defendant now asserts to be ineffective assistance of counsel. 28 The Supreme Court has held that two requirements must be met to support an ineffective assistance of counsel claim. 29 First, the defendant must show that counsel's performance was deficient. This requires showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In analyzing prejudicial effect under Strickland, it is necessary to examine the record in its entirety.”
3 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.