85 F. Supp. 2d 837 - Williams v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
May 2002
most recently cited
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Lindh v. Murphy · Sawyer v. Whitley · Milone v. Camp
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is not deficient performance to fail to raise an argument with no real chance of success or where the objection would have been properly overruled if it had been made.”
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.