Singleton v. Lockhart’s Empirical Analysis
871 F.2d 1395 · 1989
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2016 · most notably Martinez-Villareal v. Arizona (1989), Martinez-Villareal v. Arizona (1989)
18 federal appellate · 3 district · 10 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 · Swain v. State of Alabama · Darden v. Wainwright · Engle v. Isaac
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of a discrepancy on a single venire panel cannot demonstrate systematic exclusion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“made errors so serious that [he] was not functioning as the 'counsel' guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“deficient performance prejudiced the defense.”
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.