Scott v. Dugger’s Empirical Analysis
891 F.2d 800 · 1989
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2013 · most notably Deboue v. Louisiana (1990), Graham v. Johnson (1999)
8 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Lockett v. Ohio · Taylor v. Louisiana · Duren v. Missouri
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. A reasonable probability is a probability sufficient to undermine confidence in the outcome.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Routly v. Singletary“[A]ppellant's lawyer could not have rendered ineffective assistance by failing or refusing to present a false defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Schwab v. Crosby“whether Florida's aggravating circumstance of "especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Scott 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.