May v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
948 F.2d 162 · 1992
Citation profile
14 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 2015 · most notably Graham v. Johnson (1999), Burdine v. Johnson (2001)
14 federal appellate ·
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 · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · United States v. Cronic · McCleskey v. Zant · Penry v. Lynaugh
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a constructive denial of counsel only where a government rule affirmatively forces counsel to make a choice he or she might not otherwise make in the context of a particular case”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the structure of the Texas sentencing statute so forced [May's] attorney's tactical decision on whether to present mitigating evidence as to result in a constructive denial”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are always channelled by the requirements of the statute under which the state proceeds.”
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.