McCarty v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Atkins v. Virginia · California v. Brown · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Fugate v. State
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The dispositive question in determining whether a defendant is prejudiced by counsel's failure at sentencing to present mitigating evidence is what effect the totality of the omitted mitigation evidence would have had on the sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[c]ounsel's failure to investigate and present to the court numerous potentially mitigating circumstances constituted deficient performance”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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