Harris v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
874 F.2d 756 · 1989
Citation profile
51 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably Chandler v. United States (2000), 761 So. 2d 1055 - Freeman v. State (2000)
51 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Franks v. Delaware · Gregg v. Georgia · Bonner v. City of Prichard
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]rior to the day of sentencing, neither lawyer had investigated Harris' family, scholastic, military and employment background, leading to their total--and admitted--ignorance about the type of mitigating evidence available to them.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[B]ecause ineffectiveness is a question which we must decide, admissions of deficient performance by attorneys are not decisive.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]n attorney is not obligated to present mitigation evidence if, after reasonable investigation, he or she determines that such evidence may do more harm than good.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fugate v. Head · Baxter v. Thomas
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.