Horton v. Zant’s Empirical Analysis
941 F.2d 1449 · 1991
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 162 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2019 · most notably Wood v. Allen (2010), Chandler v. United States (2000)
74 federal appellate · 1 district · 22 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 · Batson v. Kentucky · Ohio v. Roberts · Swain v. State of Alabama · Bourjaily 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 162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]ur case law rejects the notion that a 'strategic' decision can be reasonable when the attorney has failed to investigate his options and make a reasonable choice between them.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Glenn v. Tate · Ex Parte Land“must show that there is a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]aybe [the defendant] ought to die, but I don't know”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thompson v. Haley · Dobbs v. Turpin
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.