Chambers v. Armontrout’s Empirical Analysis
907 F.2d 825 · 1990
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 5 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 118 Wash. 2d 876 - Matter of Personal Restraint of Rice (1992), Kenley v. Armontrout (1991)
43 federal appellate · 5 district · 17 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 · Darden v. Wainwright · Kimmelman v. Morrison · Burger v. Kemp · Delaware v. New York
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ourts distinguish between actions that result from inadequate pretrial preparation and those that are the product of trial strategy decisions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a duty to make reasonable investigations or to make a reasonable decision that makes particular investigations unnecessary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[S]trategic choices made after thorough investigation of law and facts ... are virtually unchallengeable.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. McFadden v. State · Simmons v. Iowa
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.