Denton v. Ricketts’s Empirical Analysis
791 F.2d 824 · 1986
Citation profile
16 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2016
16 federal appellate ·
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 · Gideon v. Wainwright · Bruton v. United States · McMann v. Richardson · Lutwak 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different[,]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“will depend upon the particular facts and circumstances of a case. In this case, every court which considered the question (both the Oklahoma district court and court of appeals as well as the federal district court and a panel of this court) found trial counsel's performance to be”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dutton v. Brown“Counsel's actions were based properly on informed strategic choices and are well within the range of professionally reasonable judgments.”
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.