May v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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.

1. “). Therefore, we rejected the Eighth Amendment claim. 8 May ... made a tactical decision to neither develop nor present this evidence at trial. We have previously ruled that a defendant's deliberate failure”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. May v. Collins · Marquez v. Collins

2. “defense counsel representing victims of child abuse and mental impairment [were faced] with a tactical dilemma: (1) either to present the mitigating evidence, which would do more harm than good by bolstering the state's case with regard to future dangerousness, and then to pursue a losing constitutional argument; or (2) to withhold that evidence and hope that other arguments would persuade the jury to impose a life sentence. Any capable defense attorney would pursue the latter course....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Motley v. Collins

3. “testimony and (2) that prosecutors interfered with cross-examination through intimidation of Miles. In our opinion affirming the district court's denial of relief on, inter alia, these two claims, we stated that after review of the briefs, argument and record,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. May v. Collins