Dees v. Caspiri’s Empirical Analysis
904 F.2d 452 · 1990
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2025
11 federal appellate · 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 · Benjamin v. United States · United States v. S.A. Empresa de Viacao Aerea Rio Grandense · United States v. Security Industrial Bank · Vanderbilt v. Texas
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“counsel hals] a duty to make a diligent investigation of the forensic evidence and its potential weaknesses”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“continue looking for experts just because the one he has consulted gave an unfavorable opinion”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“counsel was appropriately cautious of this rule’s potential application”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Forrest v. Steele
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.