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813 F.3d 1175 · 2016

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
May 2026
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Lockett v. Ohio · Lindh v. Murphy · Schlup v. Delo

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

  1. “retain[ ] the essential premise and characteristic of the clinical definition cited in Atkins "); Chase v. State , 171 So.3d 463 , 471 (Miss. 2015) ("The [AAIDD and DSM-V definitions of intellectual disability] have not materially altered the diagnosis of intellectual disability [cited in Atkins ] but have provided new terminology.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “The basic premise of the Flynn effect is that because average IQ scores increase over time, a person who takes an IQ test that has not recently been normed against a representative sample of the population will receive an artificially inflated IQ score.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “recognizes the existence of the Flynn Effect and recommends correcting for the age of norms in outdated tests”
    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.