Heath v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
941 F.2d 1126 · 1991
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2020 · most notably State v. Ross (1994), State v. Reed (1996)
19 federal appellate · 2 district · 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
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Coleman v. Thompson · Wainwright v. Witt · Michigan v. Long · Abney v. United States
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the neglected claim would have a reasonable probability of success on appeal”). 7 . Moreover, although Hall contends that counsel could have obtained more evidence in support of a voluntary manslaughter instruction, Hall still fails to provide any evidence other than the psychiatric and emotional evidence that we do not find compelling. For example, at the charge conference, counsel suggested to the trial court that when Hall went to the apartment at 7:40 a.m., Ms. Hall maybe “did something to indicate that she did have a relationship [with Sebastian]'' enough to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hall v. Head“[a] defendant has a right to counsel to aid in the direct appeal of his or her criminal conviction. This right to counsel is violated when appellate counsel is ineffective. This circuit has applied the Supreme Court’s test for ineffective assistance at trial, see Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668 , 104 S.Ct. 2052 , 80 L.Ed.2d 674 (1984), to guide its analysis of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel claims. Therefore, [Petitioner] must show that his appellate counsel’s performance was deficient and that this performance prejudiced the defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gordon v. Singletary“However, even if a veniremember should have been struck for cause, the Supreme Court in Ross v. Oklahoma, 487 U.S. 81 [ 108 S.Ct. 2273 , 101 L.Ed.2d 80 ] (1988), held that there is no constitutional violation where the biased veniremember does not eventually sit on the jury. The Court in Ross held that a habeas Petitioner’s constitutional rights were not violated when he was forced to waste a peremptory challenge to remove a veniremember whom the court should have removed for cause.”
1 later decision 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.