Foster v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
823 F.2d 402 · 1987
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Waters v. Thomas (1995), Atkins v. Singletary (1992)
20 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Darden v. Wainwright · Kimmelman v. Morrison · McCleskey v. Kemp · Porzig v. Nolden
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'other testimony might have been elicited from those who testified.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“reasonableness in all the circumstances, applying a heavy measure of deference to counsel's judgments.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'pursue every path until it [bore] fruit or until all available hope whither[ed].'”
2 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.