Futch v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
874 F.2d 1483 · 1989
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 118 Wash. 2d 876 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Rice (1992), Blanco v. Singletary (1991)
9 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 2253 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996) · 28 U.S.C. § 2254 (Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996)
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Townsend v. Sain · Cupp v. Naughten · Henderson v. Kibbe · Nantahala Power & Light Co. v. Thornburg
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“at least a reasonable probability that a psychological evaluation would have revealed that he was incompetent to stand trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Blanco v. Singletary“must be inflammatory or gruesome, and so critical that its introduction denied petitioner a fundamentally fair trial”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tejada v. Dugger“'whether the error, if any, was of such magnitude as to deny petitioner his right to a fair trial.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jacobs v. Singletary
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.