Brewer v. Aiken’s Empirical Analysis
935 F.2d 850 · 1991
Citation profile
65 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 115 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Brecheen v. Reynolds (1994), Hall v. Washington (1997)
65 federal appellate · 14 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 · Wainwright v. Sykes · Nix v. Whiteside · Sumner v. Mata · Martinez-Villareal v. Arizona
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 115 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“can grant habeas relief only when there is a violation of federal statutory or constitutional law,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Djefense counsel’s failure to investigate the mental history of a defendant with low intelligence demonstrates conclusively that he did not “make a significant effort, based on reasonable investigation and logical argument, to ably present the defendant’s fate to the jury and to focus the attention of the jury on any mitigating factors.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e do not sit as a super state supreme court,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.