Evans v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
855 F.2d 631 · 1988
Citation profile
78 federal appellate · 3 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Bonin v. Calderon (1995), Sanders v. Ratelle (1994)
78 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Wainwright v. Sykes · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Wainwright v. Witt
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a strong presumption that counsel's conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[C]ounsel's failure to pursue the possibility of establishing [his client's] mental instability constituted deficient performance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a 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
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.