Blanco v. Singletary’s Empirical Analysis
943 F.2d 1477 · 1991
Citation profile
67 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 153 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Chandler v. United States (2000), Brecheen v. Reynolds (1994)
67 federal appellate · 2 district · 28 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 · Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Faretta v. California · Neil v. Biggers · Townsend v. Sain
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 153 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant’s desires not to present mitigating evidence do not terminate counsel's responsibilities during the sentencing phase of a death penalty trial: ‘The reason lawyers may not”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he ultimate decision that was reached not to call witnesses was not a result of investigation and evaluation, but was instead primarily a result of counsels' eagerness to latch onto Blanco's statements that he did not want any witnesses called. Indeed, this case points up an additional danger of waiting until after a guilty verdict to prepare a case in mitigation of the death penalty: Attorneys risk that both they and their client will mentally throw in the towel and lose the willpower to prepare a convincing case in favor of a life sentence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the trial court overreached its authority”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.