Bemore v. Chappell’s Empirical Analysis
788 F.3d 1151 · 2015
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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 · Williams v. Taylor · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Chambers v. Mississippi
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.
“At the penalty phase, counsel's duty to follow up on indicia of mental impairment is quite different from-and much broader and less contingent than-the more confined guilt-phase responsibility.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a state prisoner must show that the state court's ruling on the claim being presented in federal court was so lacking in justification that there was an error well understood and comprehended in existing law beyond any possibility for fairminded disagreement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Stevens v. Carlin“[A] good character defense was unlikely to be persuasive to a jury that had just decided that [defendant] had carried out a grizzly murder, including torturing the victim....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Filson
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.