Becton v. Barnett’s Empirical Analysis
920 F.2d 1190 · 1990
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably United States v. Peak (1993), Fields v. Attorney General of Maryland (1992)
24 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 · Townsend v. Sain · Dusky v. United States · Evitts v. Lucey · Ford v. Wainwright
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The effect of counsel’s failure to appeal was that Becton lost his ability to protect his “vital interests at stake.” See Evitts [v. Lucey], 469 U.S. [387] at 396, 105 S.Ct. [830] at 836 [1985]. He was unable to attempt to demonstrate that his conviction was unlawful through the appellate process. See id. For whatever reason, Beeton’s appeal was not filed. As a result, Becton might well have been prejudiced by his counsel’s ineffective assistance. Therefore, Becton has presented a colorable claim of ineffectiveness based on counsel’s failure to appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]here material facts are in dispute the federal court in a habeas proceeding must hold an evidentiary hearing unless the facts were resolved in a prior state hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Poyner v. Murray“that he had been in and out of mental hospitals prior to his arrest”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Poyner v. Murray
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.